Word: boone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II is a boon to the bug armies. The minerals with which man has fought bugs for years-arsenic, copper, lead-are now needed for his war on his own kind. Carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dichloride and chloropicrin are withheld from insecticide manufacturers for the benefit of war materials. The phosphorus paste that used to kill cockroaches now goes into incendiary bombs. A group of six articles on the war against insects, in the current issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, makes these facts plain...
Arthur L. Besse '42, Commodore of the Harvard Yacht Club, terms this government statement as very encouraging, and emphasizes the fact that the accelerated program, with the resulant large Summer School enrollment, will prove a boon to yachting at Harvard...
...Greatest boon to amateur dressmakers are the paper and plastic dress forms, custom-made for each figure, developed in the past five years...
Twentieth Century-Fox's boon to the warbound tourist is Song of the Islands, a Technicolored musical which sets two of the studio's finest torso-bearers (Betty Grable & Victor Mature) down on one of the lesser Hawaiian islands, a curious place, half paradise, half fruit stand. There blonde Miss Grable, who is especially well organized for paradisal parts, doffs the sweater she has lived in at school on the U.S. mainland and resumes her role as the community's No. 1 lei girl...
...rationing of new tires announced by OPA last week was a blessing and a boon to some 4,500 little businessmen. For years the poor relation and black sheep of the U.S. rubber industry, the retreading business has suddenly become the white hope of U.S. car owners...