Word: rustproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed a new wheat strain which resists both...
...coating which will make metals rustproof...
...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...
...sporting-goods dealers by declaring their balls were too full of felt and the wrong color. He had the balls dyed robin's-egg blue for better visibility. On the day of the tournament he put on his white ducks and special hat (it had "large squares of rustproof screening on it for ventilation"), took over the jobs of checker, referee, games announcer, scorer. Since he liked crowds and policemen, the tournament presented Father with "an ideal problem . . . the crowds would come to watch the match and the police would come to watch the crowds...