Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cause of this action was an exchange crisis precipitated when the British Treasury, under the strain of heavy purchases in the U. S., allowed the pound sterling to fall below...
...every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never went to seed." Because they are "female sterile," the flowers cannot be mated with one another. But not being "male sterile," their strain can be continued by using their pollen to fertilize the double hybrids. The 60-petaled super-double hybrids were shown in Manhattan last week at a special preview for horticulturists, to whom Mr. Burpee recounted the story of his find. The flower has been patented under the name Trapaeolum majus...
...Charles) Normal Stabler, a quiet, scholarly Swarthmon graduate (Class of 1923). For smart layout and able writing the Herald Tribune financial section ranks ahead of every other in the U. S. Editor Stabler will celebrate his 35th birthday next week on a Caribbean cruise to recover from the strain of putting out the Herald Tribune's annual review of 22 pages. Better publicized than his superior is brilliant Associate Financial Editor Edward H. Collins, whose Monday morning essays have as large a following as those of old Mr. Noyes on the Times...
...early days of 1933 when frozen assets had put most U. S. banks in hot water, the general counsel of RFC frequently used to spend 18 hours a day on the legal problems of bank relief. Even in those busy days, though, Stanley Forman Reed was under less strain than he was last week. Since he became U. S. Solicitor General last March, he has fought one great case on behalf of the New Deal-the Schechter (NIRA) Case-and lost...
...Stakhanov may have a bright idea but in most Russian factories last week correspondents found that Stakhanovism means primarily overexertion. In a big textile mill just outside Moscow the manager, ordered to Stakhanovize, told "girls with strong legs" tending two looms that if they thought they could stand the strain of tending four he would gladly increase their pay so long as they could keep it up. With sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work, but I wanted to make...