Word: poplars
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...every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise do not bother...
...McKee, financed by Oxford Paper Co., has worked for four years on new hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn...
...when the casual motorist in New England will have a new joy. He will drive up to a handsome colonial edifice set in a little park plot with poplar trees about it and there he will satisfy both his machine and himself. For the machine there will be gasoline and oil; for the man there will be hot dogs...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...
...Abgarian, Jack Loughner, Charles Dybvig, William Chaffee. They were holders of indoor and outdoor records for model airplane flying. Representatives Clancy and McLeod introduced them to President Coolidge, who went with them to the lawn and watched them fly their toys. Two of the planes crashed in a tall poplar tree, stuck there...