Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questionnaire enclosed copies of the Wednesday menus in the House Dining Halls, and the men were asked to check off all dishes of which they partook. As no dish was unanimously chosen by the sufferers, the possibility of a polluted bit of steak, tomato juice, or something of that nature was obviated...
Flower growers have learned to their sorrow that a little illuminating gas leaking into their greenhouses will wither their sturdiest blooms. Director Crocker noted that tomato plants are so sensitive that they will droop in the presence of one part of gas to 100,000 of air. He advised growers to keep a tomato plant in their greenhouses to serve as a sentinel, give warning of gas in time to save the flowers...
...shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...
...hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results for intelligent deliberation by accredited representatives; don't ladle the intoxicant to a world press that's raking its lucre by constipating the unwashed...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...