Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflationary gap is not a price or wage increase; it is the real value difference between consumer purchasing power and consumer goods and services left to be purchased when most productive resources have been diverted to building up the war machine. The gap is the root of the price and wage rises, which accompany inflation. The potted plant in the Hellzapoppin show grew no more quickly than does inflation; stabilizing prices and wages only lops off its branches, and does not prevent the rapid growth of the trunk. Unless the roots are killed, more and bigger branches are bound...
...editors, five have died. Quite a few of the others have gone on to fame elsewhere. Two have won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Archibald MacLeish and the late Stephen Vincent Benét. Publisher John Farrar was our first books editor, and Wells C. Root, our first cinema reporter, is now one of Hollywood's top flight scenarists...
...rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from the U.S.S.R. a year ago, contains rubber of good quality, easily separated from the root, but farm labor shortage makes its cultivation impracticable...
...inventor of the machines for processing it, is mild, spectacled Dr. Boris Berkman, onetime director of the Pasteur Institute in Moscow, for 20 years a surgeon on the staff of Chicago's Grant Hospital. He discovered one value of milkweed during a study of soil erosion. Its root system allows it to thrive on soil that is worthless for other use, and it binds the soil instead of breaking it. One million pounds of the floss could be collected from wild growth on marginal land in Emmet County, Mich, alone...
Round Trip. In Carson City, Nev., Sheriff Ray Root finally won a nine-year battle for a law giving him 6% of the license fees he collected, then found he had been entitled to the cut all along...