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...institute, with 40 scientists whose various temperaments Dr. Crocker must coddle, is the most thoroughly equipped in the world to study plant life. Outdoors and indoors, under sunlight and artificial light, in natural and laboratory atmospheres, the institute men study how and why plants thrive or fail. Thus Dr. Crocker, as the seed specialist, discovered that most seeds sprout quickly if they are kept dry and cold between harvest and planting, knowledge which benefits farmers incalculably. Other information is that extra carbon dioxide, such as can be washed out of factory coal smoke, speeds up the growth of the plants...
...present offices. Besides serving as general executive under the direction of the Executive Committee, she is also assisting in a research project presently to be mentioned. Thus, after nearly sixteen years, economic research has acquired its place in the sun at Harvard University, with every prospect that it will thrive and demonstrate its right to permanent support...
...Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley are many ancient companies. Some have shared in the general decline of New England industries, but the copper and brass manufacturers thrive above all others, produce 70% of U. S. fabricated brass. In 1922 Anaconda Copper Mining Co. reached into this region, bought American Brass Co. Later Kennecott absorbed Chase Brass & Copper Co. Last week Scovill Manufacturing Co., most venerable of all the Valley's brass companies, figured in a deal, but, absorbing instead of being absorbed, continued an expansion policy in buying A. Schrader's Sons, Inc. of Brooklyn...
...Libel. Collier's Weekly; by onetime District Prohibition Administrator F. H. McLenahan; at Denver. The charge: that "false and derogatory" statements were made about him in the Dec. 28, 1928, issue of the magazine. His demand: $100,000 damages. The article, "Sugar Moon," said that 2,000 bootleggers thrive in Denver, sell whiskey made from sugar beets...
...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...