Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ashes, was razed again by fire in 1918, made still another fresh start. In 1921, when it hired Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant in the Moraga Valley. But last summer, despite Slip Madigan and its football team (whose expenses ate up all the gate receipts), St. Mary's was sold at auction for $411,150 to a committee of bondholders for default of payments on $1,370,500 in outstanding bonds (TIME...
...Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...
...better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with...
When extracted from the plant, chlorophyll as a catalyst is no longer effective. Scores of laboratories working on the problem of imitating natural photosynthesis have tried other catalysts, but none works so efficiently as chlorophyll. Some ten years ago at the University of Liverpool, Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly obtained formaldehyde, sugar and starch from carbon dioxide, water and artificial white light, using nickel oxide as a catalyst, but in tiny quantities and at low efficiencies...
...grinds its own camera lenses, Bausch & Lomb is the only U. S. commercial maker of scientific precision glass. So important is this fact to the U. S. Navy Department that its agents are constantly on watch to keep the general public out of Bausch & Lomb's Rochester plant. Last week, however, the general public was invited to come in, not to Bausch & Lomb's plant but to its ownership...