Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only a week remaining before the curtain goes up on its 65th production. "The Inspector General," the HDC cast is intensively rehearsing amidst the props of the Big Tree Swimming Pool for their four night stand next Wednesday through Saturday, and a subsequent tour of Army camps...
...believe that Mussolini is today a very sick man because, not only is his family tree predominated by people who died young and his own children in poor health; but the Italian leader himself is a victim of syphilis, the professor concluded...
...thriller of 1939-40, was the best literary mystery in a publishing tycoon's age. Leading can didates of the guessers were Dorothy Thompson, Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with...
...magnificent half-Bengal, half-Sumatran tiger who is out to get Mowgli (Sabu, the young Hindu who starred in Elephant Boy). The ominous supporting cast includes some 2,000 animals, birds and reptiles-notably a slinky black panther (Bagheera) with a sinister propensity for sharpening his lethal claws on tree limbs, an enormous python (Kaa, who had to be controlled with a blow torch), and a very unpleasant cobra...
Along the Gulf Coast, from Florida into Texas, are nearly 200,000 scattered acres of tung plantations, out of 750,000 acres believed to be suitable for the culture. But the tung tree is hard to raise in U.S. soil and climate. It needs a minimum of five, a maximum of 15 days of freezing weather; virgin, acid soil; good drainage and a hillside location. It should have at least 40 inches of well-distributed rainfall each year...