Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine-Prussia Corp.'s new plant now building will extract from coal 70.000 tons of gasoline and 20,000 tons of byproducts annually, is to be a major supply link in the Fatherland's Rearmament...
Strangest of Mr. Teale's beasts: the aphid (plant louse), which reproduces by parthenogenesis (without mating), gives birth to males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
...line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave him "a lovely sensation." Abstracted, ruddy and untidy, he now sits at a big desk beside a lofty window which frames two sprawling, dirty vines and a begonia plant, directs the immaculate preservation of more than 100,000 prints. Last winter Curator Rossiter exhibited 500 as the first gesture in celebration of his department's soth anniversary. The lithographs now on view are the second gesture...
...dentist, had obtained the money by selling gold from the teeth of Navy Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright...
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending...