Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that had gone into that baby." One of the things, it turned out, was a capsule of carmine red. A substance that goes through the intestines at the same speed as food, the brilliant red dye can tell a physician how long nourishment is staying in a disturbed digestive tract. Where had the dye come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius coccus, whose fat contains the dye. And where had they come from? The Canary Islands and Peru. In both places the insects appeared...
...Wisconsinbased home prefabricator, has filed in bankruptcy. To lure customers despite forbidding mortgage terms, some Boston builders have offered to shave $1,000 or $2,000 off the sales price if the buyer will accept a house with one or two unfinished rooms. Allstate S & L, taking over a tract of $45,000 homes from a bankrupt developer in Whittier, Calif., even gives a free Mustang to buyers who make a 20% down payment. Still, a few builders are thriving. With ample lines of mortgage credit, Long Island-based William J.L. itt expects a 20% increase in sales...
Word that Harvard has revived an 11-year old plan for a Faculty housing project in the Shady Hill area touched off a wave of phone calls to the University yesterday, along with demands that neighbors have some say in what happens to the six-acre tract Harvard owns there...
Today the city itself, with a population of 2,800,000, rambles through 469 sq. mi. of desert, mountain and valley. But the city is only the core of a vast, amoeba-like mass that makes up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, a 5,000-sq. mi. tract that includes Los Angeles County (pop. 7,020,000) and such neighboring cities as Long Beach and San Bernardino. Though Los Angeles proper ranks third in population among U.S. cities (after New York and Chicago), Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure...
...steep. Man's food supply is adequate only in the cool temperate zone, where grow most of the grains and soybeans that supply 60% of human energy. Crops in tropical rain forests are still grown as the Mayan Indians grew them 20 centuries ago: by burning off a tract, tilling it three years, then abandoning...