Word: bollworm
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From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, "the most threatening insect pest of American cotton," is doing more damage "to the 1952 cotton crop . . . than its total damage in the last 35 years." Jolted by the news, cotton traders in New York and elsewhere began buying heavily, quickly pushed cotton futures up as much as $2.50 a bale. But when newsmen tried to get some more facts on the crop damage a few hours later, faces at the Agriculture Department were as pink as a bollworm. There are no figures, said Agriculture officials...
...reasoning was simple and logical. Gov ernment agencies do 10.001 jobs, from building battleships to advising farmers about the pink bollworm. But they all do one thing in common: spend money. A Budget Bureau should be in an ideal position to survey and coordinate the whole activity of the Government, inquiring into purposes and projects, checking performances, uncovering and eliminating extravagance, duplication, confusion...
...Egypt, 37,900 acres were considerably damaged by the pink bollworm...