Word: silkworms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch the ceremony of fastening the first sections of the first airship with Dentist Roehner's gold rivet...
...Frank Cheney Jr. to Roger, son of Architect Charles A. Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications of relationship between the various families descended from the original seven Cheney brothers: Ralph, Ward, Frank, Rush, Charles, John, Seth...
...surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity...
...grafting next spring; the extension of the mulberry orchard; adding to our already large collection of mulberry varieties both foreign and Chinese; carrying on a large amount of educational work, including a special short course in sericulture; doing extension work with a selected group of farmers near Nanking; and silkworm breeding for purification of varieties and increasing silk yields...
Interviewed by a Christian Science Monitor reporter, said I: 'When I sell a mulberry seedling to a merchant in Formosa for silkworm culture, or my spineless edible cacti to the East Indian Government...