Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blooms by moonlight in a valley in Tibet. Taken in small doses, the juice of the mariphasa will arrest lycanthropy temporarily. The Werewolf of London is a nasty little fantasy showing what happens when two werewolves begin squabbling between themselves in order to gain possession of the only mariphasa plant in London...
Dolly: I may turn into a little plant and grow on you. Gooch, gooch, gooch...
...entitled to the exclusive right to make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months to get a patent examined; on the average, two years to get one granted...
...desire of the Brothers Mills to do battle with almost the entire U. S. dairy industry. Their ideas of corporate management are as novel as their products. Brother Fred, 40, is president; Ralph, 37, vice president in charge of sales; Herbert, 35, treasurer and manager of the 19-acre plant; Hayden ("Bill"), 33, secretary. They keep their employes happy with beauty contests and sweepstakes on monthly sales. Last summer Brother Fred ordered beer served to every employe every day of the week. Even the office boys call him by his first name, sometimes pursuing him down a corridor yelling...
...squeeze some dividends from its expanding business,. Chrysler kept its retooling expenses at a minimum last autumn. Independent front wheel springing was taken off the Plymouth, saving perhaps as much as $10 per car. A simpler ventilating system saved another $2 or $3 per unit. With none of the plant upheaval or unbudgeted expenses that always accompany the introduction of a radical new model, Chrysler got off to a flying start...