Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand fossil plant specimens acquired during the past year has increased the Botanical Museum collection to more than 88,000 specimens, the largest and most representative paleobotanical collection in the world outside of the British Musum of Natural History, the annual report of the Museum reveals...
...collection of economic plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
...been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric...
Since Physarum produces "fruits" at intervals averaging 14 days (at the end of which it turns into hard, seedlike cells), it is formally classified as a plant. Yet the new little fruits, bundles of protoplasm, have powers of locomotion like an animal. They move by the classical method of protoplasmic streaming-protruding part of their body, pulling the rest after the protrusion...
Died. Douglas Vickers, 76, retired chairman of Vickers Ltd., World's No. 2 munitions firm,* onetime (1918-22) Member of Parliament; in London. In 1931 he declared to visitors in his plant: "Our work is very necessary, because the League of Nations cannot be depended upon to do everything...