Word: sap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since botanists knew that sap was carried from the roots of a tall tree to the leaves at its top they have wondered what force was responsible for this transportation. One theory held was that pressure in the roots acted as a pump from below. The trouble with this was that no pressures could be measured higher than 1.4 atmospheres, which would not do for trees taller than 46 feet. Lately accepted as the most satisfactory explanation is the cohesion theory, in which it is supposed that suction created at the top by evaporation is transmitted through a cohering...
...present small salaries of Belgian civil servants are due to none other than rich Gustave Sap himself who as Minister of Finance was responsible for two successive federal pay cuts...
...such thing is Gustave Sap, Belgian scholar, politician, one of the leaders of the Catholic Party and onetime Minister of Finance (1934). But though Scholar Sap has been professor of economics at Louvain University, Politician Sap is not a man to forget a grudge. Independently wealthy, Gustave Sap has been frequently named the financial backer of Rexist Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader who was soundly trounced at the polls by black-haired, red-mustached Premier Paul van Zeeland five months ago (TIME. April...
Biding his time, vindictive Sap struck, and last week came within an ace of wrecking Paul van Zeeland's entire political career. By no means wealthy, Paul van Zeeland is nevertheless Europe's only banker-Premier. He served as secretary, director and later as vice governor of the Banque Nationale de Belgique for many years, but punctiliously resigned his post on assuming the Premiership...
...months ago Gustave Sap rose in Belgium's Parliament and pointed out that though Premier van Zeeland had tendered his resignation from the directorate of the National Bank of Belgium, the Bank still listed him as a vice governor, had not chosen a successor. Broadly he hinted that Paul van Zeeland was still accepting his $20,400 salary as a bank official, in addition to his much smaller salary as Premier of Belgium.* Furious, Premier van Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic...