Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder of the science of hydroponics was annoyed with the world last week. He had just heard that one more company had been organized to market plant-nourishing chemicals for growing plants in water, and in his testy opinion one more company made about a dozen too many...
...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...
Three years ago Gericke befriended a roving photographer named Arthur G. Pillsbury. After taking many pictures of hydroponic plants, Pillsbury became so engrossed in the subject that he went to Evanston, Ill., enlisted the interest of a truck-body manufacturer, a hosiery executive, a lawyer, a banker. Then he went back to Berkeley, asked Gericke for technical information. The scientist flatly refused. Pillsbury then turned to the dean of the College of Agriculture who gave him a pamphlet, available to anyone who asked for it, containing some information on temperature, formulae, aeration, etc. Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated...
Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk...
Only trouble with the comparison is that air conditioning has been in its infancy for the last 30 years. In 1903, the same year that the Wright brothers were getting their airplane off the ground for the first time, Willis Carrier put the first airconditioning system in the plant of a Manhattan lithographer who found that on hot days the humidity wrinkled his paper. By 1906 Willis Carrier had devised an air conditioning system for use in cotton mills, which up to then had such a problem keeping humidity in their spinning rooms that they operated with windows open...