Word: grains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ripe for Profit. The results were impressive. Without exception, seedlings Rideau wheat (a winter variety) that were continuously exposed to 5,000-cycle sound exceeded the weight of control specimens by from 250% to 300% and developed nearly four times as many potentially grain-bearing shoots. Under 12,000-cycle sound, growth increased from 20% to 50%. Dr Weinberger admits that she is mystified by the increased growth; the energy supplied by the sound waves is far too slight to account for it She suggests, however, that the sound waves themselves may produce a resonant effect in the plant cells...
...tangential to the distribution profession who had brief access to a print during theatrical release. Many others are known as "dupes," referring to prints made directly from other positive prints; a "dupe" print can usually be detected by its quality: contact printing positive to positive invariably results in higher grain, higher contrast, and consequent lack of image clarity and detail...
...sets out to destroy them. He splits the film into episodes delineated by newsreel datelines; his camera has a journalist's preoccupation with showing all the action, which takes precedence over clean-cutting or attractive composition. But at no point is Algiers a documentary--even when the high-grain high-contrast film most resembles aged newsreel footage--and ultimately Pontecorvo makes a classic statement that transcends the political issue: an affirmation of the greatness of men who choose to fight great causes, and the inability of force to destroy spirit and deep moral conviction...
...central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...bringing home from French soil the remains of 60,501 U.S. soldiers who died defending France in two wars, demanding that France repay more than $4 billion in World War I debts (which France and other European debtors except Finland ceased paying in 1932), swamping France's lucrative grain-export markets with American wheat, or putting a tax on American tourists to France. These are the kind of ideas that sound attractive-until one remembers that France, too, has great retaliatory powers, because it buys more from the U.S. than it sells...