Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat city (1991 pop. 43,625), SE Alta., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. It is the center of a farming and ranching area. Natural-gas deposits are exploited. There are light industries and glassblowing and rubber plants.
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Ficus benjamina has some cousins big-leafed, colorful, ceiling-scraping, compact.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 3/1/1984; 700+ words
; ...mistletoe fig and fancy-leafed kinds of rubber plant. Colorful rubber plants Although nearly everyone knows of the old-fashioned rubber...compact, rounded-leafed version called Robusta'. Other kinds of rubber plants now offer quite a range of foliage colors. Variegata' is...
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A leaf shine for indoor plants.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 3/1/1988; 360 words
; ...increases the chance that some pests, such as spider mites, will appear. Plants with large, smooth-surfaced leaves (such as rubber plants and philodendrons) can be gently wiped clean with a soft, damp cloth or sponge. But few of us have the patience--or time...
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Once aerospace dominated, now the economy is diverse.
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 4/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the rise and fall of big manufacturing, few areas in Southern California tell the story as well as the South Bay. Steel and rubber plants, shipbuilding, oil extraction and refining, aircraft and satellite manufacturing--it was all in the South Bay area in the...
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Air-layering? (how to transplant house plants)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 12/1/1984; 543 words
; ...vining or tree-shaped house plant. It's almost foolproof with philodendrons (including splitleaf types), ornamental figs, rubber plants, and dieffenbachia. You can even use it on parlor palm (Chameadorea elegans, often sold as Neanthe bella). You can start...
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Back on track: production picks up at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s Texarkana plant following a slow 1991.
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 4/6/1992; ; 354 words
; ...tire facilities, according to the plant manager, Bob Nelson. Cooper, which is based in Ohio, also operates three industrial rubber plants and two inner tube plants. Nelson says Texarkana's location makes it an ideal spot for a production and distribution facility...
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Natural rubber price maintained at a high level.(international markets)
Magazine article from: China Chemical Reporter; 3/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in China as follows: (i) Limited tropical land resources: Rubber plants are tropic crops. There is only 5% of tropical land resource...technical innovation is lagging behind. The genetic breeding of rubber plants in China is already affected. With the further demand increase...
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Prairie storm: a large tire recycling plant springs up in West Texas oil country.(Tire Operations Focus)(State Rubber & Environmental Solutions LLC)
Magazine article from: Recycling Today; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...serves as State Rubber's president. There's no denying we did our homework in advance, he says. We visited a number of crumb rubber plants of differing sizes and utilizing different approaches. We saw everything from equipment that had promise, to some overseas...
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Looking backward into the future. (history of California wine industry) (Column)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 2/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...more detail of the reason for rationing tank cars - they were being diverted to Mexico to deliver alcohol to U.S. artificial rubber plants (and other factories). In any case the remainder of the tank cars seemed to be requisitioned by the gov't much, much, more...
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A moment on the way to somewhere else. (Across The Age Spectrum).(Catholic culture and Vatican II, 1962-1965)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...referred to as the plants --a term in the gritty little city I grew up in equivalent to the steel plants and the tire-and-rubber plants--were full-service spiritual delivery systems. What I didn't realize at the time, of course, was that I had the good fortune...
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Youth: positive prospects, problems, possibilities.
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 1/1/1986; 641 words
; ...Hungary, the survey highlighted attitudinal change. The heroes of the 1950s--those who worked in foundries, mines, chemical and rubber plants--held what are now considered the least popular jobs. More fashionable trades today include electrician, car mechanics, dental...
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Medicine Hat
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Medicine Hat, Alberta/Canada A community grew up round a...local legend, was named as a result of a Cree medicine man losing his hat here as he fled from Blackfoot warriors. The ‘medicine’, however, may actually come from wakan...
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Oldman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...long, rising in the Rocky Mts., SW Alta., Canada, and flowing generally E past Lethbridge to join the Bow River W of Medicine Hat and form the South Saskatchewan River. The Belly River is its chief tributary. The Oldman flows through a farming region...
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John, John P.
Book article from: Contemporary Fashion
...S., 1919. Education: Studied medicine, University of Lucerne, and...Anne-Marie, "Mr. John, 91, Hat Designer for Stars and Society...on the defensive, arguing, "A hat cannot actually give one golden...out-of-herself feeling. For the right hat creates a desired mood, and...
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Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Other Cities: Antigonish, Brampton, Brantford, Charlottetown, Dawson, Fredericton, Gander, Guelph, Kingston, Kitchener, Medicine Hat, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-lake, North Bay, Oakville, Oshawa, Peterborough, Prince Albert, Prince George, Saint...
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Oliver Wolf Sacks
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...training. He began an association with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1965, later becoming a professor of neurology...creative medical thinker, Sacks is known for an approach to medicine that humanizes the patient and is concerned with the psychological...include Awakenings (1973), The ...
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