Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...
...Root of the corn-pig crisis is the price ceiling on corn ($1 a bushel) and the price floor on hogs ($13.75 a 100 lb.). By feeding the corn to the hogs, farmers figure they can get the equivalent of $1.35 a bushel for their corn. Last week corn bootleggers roamed the Midwest, buying up corn at above-ceiling prices to sell to hog raisers...
...level the curvature of the earth limits the range of vision to 2.9 miles. The formula for determining how many miles an individual can see at higher levels is the square root of his altitude times 1.225. Thus on a clear day at 1,000 feet a person with normal vision can see 39 miles; at 10,000 feet, 123 miles; at 25,000 feet, 194 miles. With good visibility a pilot at 25,000 feet can see Germany from the English Channel; at the same altitude over Tunisia he can see the middle of Sicily...
Nearly every Congressman, at least once in his life, is suddenly struck with a grand-scale idea about money as the root of all evil. Forthwith he takes pen in hand and writes either a book or a bill...
...Most of the fears turned out to have been unnecessary. An impartial U.S.Bolivian Commission of jurists, unionists, industrialists and Government economists found many an example of outrageous exploitation, many a sore spot in the Bolivian economy. But the authors of the report also demonstrated an intelligent awareness that the root causes lay deep in centuries of poverty and inevitably slow development. In its sum, the report was at once an indictment of those who now exploit these conditions, and a challenge to all the Americas to raise the standards of substandard areas. Points...