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...were tired of stewing fresh cranberries, decided to can some cranberry sauce. Housewives ate it up. Even so, cranberries sold mostly around holidays, and sales grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...
...plan would ask lower-level Gen Ed courses to compete with departmental courses for students, and this too will be welcome. Too many undergraduates are thrown into bad courses because no alternatives are available; competition should weed these...
Although the tangled weed abounds in nearly every tropical and subtropical part of the world, the scientists reported, it can be as unpredictable as it is prolific. It sometimes grows below a dam but not above it. In some places, once destroyed, the plant does not grow back; in most other places, it returns as tough as ever. On the Nile, where Egypt spends $1,500,000 annually on hyacinth eradication with dredges and herbicides, the plants cluster to form islands strong enough to support animals. "You can never let up," says William E. Wunderlich, aquatic growth control chief...
...trouble the hyacinth causes, cautioned Oxford Botanist Dr. E.C.S. Little, a member of Britain's Weed Research Organization, the plant is not all bad. It could be harvested, he said, as a new source of food; it has about the same nutritional value as the turnip. Little need have little fear that the plant will be wiped out. It once grew only in fresh water, but in Louisiana it now grows in salt marshes, has even lived for a while out in the Gulf of Mexico. It may soon be attacking tropical ports all over the world...
...melted overnight, and Sage sailed off for New York where he made a $50,000 killing. At 24, he operated a fleet of riverboats and a private moneylending business, was a bank director, city councilman, and creditor to two of New York's biggest Whigs: Editor Thurlow Weed and Governor William H. Seward...