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...Bran Bait. Stay-at-home grasshoppers are common all over the U.S., but the migrating types from the range lands do the most damage. After they reach maturity they rise in roaring clouds, fly hundreds of miles and utterly destroy any crop they settle...
...best way to deal with them is to kill them before they get their wings. Last week Dutton's fighters were spreading poisoned bait by airplane over as many square miles as possible in the outbreak areas. Every day 53 pilots were flying 35 airplanes in relays, as long as daylight lasted...
...Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
...over 35 fathoms, the battle began. Said Louis, "I saw him coming to take bait and yelled 'marlin,' and before he snapped the line off the outrigger I was in the chair." Hooked on an 18-oz. lemonwood rod, the maddened marlin streaked ahead of the Schmidts' 40-ft. Cayman II flashing high in the sun. When John turned the boat around, the fish headed for the bottom. Said Louis, "For three hours I had my leg hooked around everything except the keel...
Surprise Witness. Murphy politely refused the bait-he wanted to impress the jury, through sheer boredom if necessary, of the size and the import of the material which Chambers said he had received from Hiss, the onetime State Department bright young man, for transmission to Soviet Russia. He kept at his slow task for two days, while Stryker paced the corridor outside, clutching a chewed cigar and frowning with impatience...