Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nevertheless, give the fund's membership an opportunity to test the new concept. If the drawing rights prove effective, they may be expected to be increased. As the Federal Reserve's Martin noted: "Like any new asset it must earn acceptance. You don't make a tree, a tree grows...
Well aware of that fact, Mayer spent nearly six years preparing this book, which got to the publisher three years late. But for all his effort, he has mainly heft to show. His book carefully discusses almost every important tree in the legal forest, plus the forest itself...
...eternally. Katz therefore took his earnings from Rite-Kit, set up Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...
...relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro's botanically infused waters may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and fool proof insecticide...
Williams quickly hypothesized tint the Rio Negro might in effect be an immense tea, pontaining infusions of plant and tree substances similar to the insect hormones. Scooping up the dark river water, Williams and his colleagues, Professors Fotis Kafatos of Harvard and David Prescott of the University of Colorado, freeze-dried and boiled the water to concentrate the chemicals in it, extracted them with solvents, then injected the resulting solution into immature cockroaches. Sure enough, the roaches all died without reaching sexual maturity...