Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...this Cambridge autumnal phenomenon--the lush full beard--has been suffering lately from the kind of neglect that springs from sowing a field too heavily with wheat. But we broached this subject once to a Student Council member, whose avocation is Marine Biology. He thought we were talking about freshwater shrimp, lectured us for some minutes in off-the-record fashion about the cusine at During Park, and concluded with a prepared statement about Council endorsement of private enterprise...
...that Tito was not going to toss away blithely the position he had won for himself as a neutral, a broker and/or profiteer between East and West. Awaiting President Eisenhower's approval this month is an offer of U.S. aid which will give Yugoslavia much-needed surplus U.S. wheat and military supplies, including scores of jet planes. If Tito expected this deal to go through after the spectacle of his urgent flight into the innermost councils of Communism, he certainly had to expect the trip to produce something that would not jeopardize his position with the U.S. Interestingly enough...
Yearly Bread. In Los Angeles, after his loaf of whole-wheat bread won first prize in the Los Angeles County Fair, Antique Dealer Streeter Blair admitted that he made the loaf last year, aged it twelve months in the Deep Freeze...
...Ontario's Blind River area were getting ready to enjoy a return from some $200 million of risk capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months was up 30% from last year, and still rising. The boom is wonderful while it lasts-and it shows every sign of lasting for a while...