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...Mansion Mortimer, 65, a Scotsman who has a place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
...Your article on marijuana (TIME, July 19) was dangerous and misleading. You compared its effects favorably with the use of alcohol, and made the use of this weed seem attractive and ''delightful...
...neck, his belt loosened, his black shoes unlaced. His grey eyes peered through the windows of his comfortable house to the shade trees on Washington's drowsy Hobart Street. Now, he thought, there would be time to dabble in the tiny home laboratory, to spade and weed the small backyard garden...
...author (I use the word advisedly) of the article "The Weed" (TIME, July 19), a subtitle to your Music (?) column, arbitrarily dumps jazz musicians into two categories. He gives us the hopheads, the drunkards and, unfortunately for the future growth of American jazz music, no middle road...