Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been able to learn, was the first organization ever established in any university for the purpose of making permanent provision for economic research. Form its efforts have come, first, the Harvard Economic Society, and now the enlarged Committee on Economic Research which, having put its hand to the plow, will never turn back. Realizing that the generous grant of the Rockefeller Foundation provides only the necessary start, it believes that it has started an enterprise that will not only justify itself by results but will in ever-increasing degree command the support of friends and benefactors of Harvard University
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...