Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is less of a plantation than an agricultural factory. Last year the Eastland plantation had about 1,900 acres in cotton, the remainder in corn, soybeans, oats, barley and pasturage. Under Eastland's close supervision, the land is cultivated according to the most scientific information available. Each spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time, inject seventy tons of anhydrous ammonia to the exact depth of 15 inches into the Eastland soil. Heavy plows bite deep into the Delta loam and turn under 150 tons of carefully prepared silage. Tons of cottonseed hulls provide humus...
...spring crept up on the entertainment world, lovebirds, young and middle-agish. began to warble of making nests, although their fluty chirps were all but drowned out by the quasi-romantic uproar emanating from the welter of Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt...
...Litchfield announced the biggest expansion program in his company's history: $114 million to increase production both at home and abroad. In the U.S. new plants and machines will boost production of tires, foam rubber, aircraft products, flooring and chemicals, while overseas new Goodyear tire plants will spring up in Scotland, Colombia, Venezuela and the Philippines. Said Litchfield, noting Goodyear's record 1955 sales of $1.3 billion and $59 million profit: "Our plants, both in this country and abroad, have all been operating at full capacity during the past year, and this is continuing into 1956. We look...
...Never Was (20thCentury-Fox). One morning in the spring of 1943, the body of a man in the uniform of the Royal Marines was washed ashore on the coast of Spain. He carried valuable papers indicating that the next Allied thrust was to be in Greece rather than Sicily. Would the Germans get this skillfully planted misinformation? If they did, would they...
...Last spring the Crimson rugby team won the Intercollegiate Cup. Last fall they played three games without a win. Today at 2 p.m. the ruggers hope to get back in the winning habit, as they face last year's Eastern champion, New York Rugby Club, at Van Cortlandt Park in New York...