Word: replantation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column is not merely a tower of simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...
...Daughters of American Revolution in Washington, Indiana's Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes clarioned: "If we were alert in the maintenance of true national defense we would, through proper legal action, root up every Japanese cherry tree on Federal property, saw them up for firewood, and replant them with American cherry trees." That day will mark a precedent Which brings no news of Rockwell Kent...
...reason why this picture should have stumbled into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed...
...Savannah has fostered paper making in the cut-over pine lands and swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...
Last July a 50-year-old plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom...