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...freshman botany student knows, all of these reported events are biologically impossible, since they imply that trees grow from the bottom. Trees, contrary to popular opinion, grow from the ends of the branches and of the main trunk . . . H. E. BREWER Pullman, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...House, though, was in no saving mood, for it was busy examining its own budget. By voice vote and without a dissenting murmur, the House laid out $22.8 million for itself and another $37.5 million for general congressional expenses. There was $20,000 to provide a new trunk and two wooden footlockers (an old custom) for each Representative; $2,000 for ice; funds for subsidized (50?) haircuts; a $132,400 increase in the stationery allowance and a $700,000 increase in telephone and telegraph expenses; $199,500 for the Capitol Botanic Garden; $20,000 to complete the frieze around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Economy Begins Elsewhere | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

This letter may take some time to reach you, as it goes first by a native in a hollowed tree-trunk canoe, then in a dhow, then in a trading schooner, and finally in a plane-a kind of potted edition of travel through the ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Orlando and an interpreter, they marched eastward for five hours to the bank of the Kuluene River. There all halted in absolute silence. After another session with his elders, Komatzi sent a brave for a canoe. The chief stepped gravely toward Orlando, pointed to a mark cut in the trunk of a nearby tree. "This is how tall Ingueleze was on his last trip," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Skull & Bones | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...View. William B. MacDonald Jr. of Chicago's Mid-States Corp. (house trailers) had a 12½-in. TV set built into his 1951 Cadillac sedan.* The viewing tube is fixed at a 45-degree angle on the rear floor of the car, the antenna protrudes from the trunk. Cost of the set plus installation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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