Word: borer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indirect effect of this corn stalk utilization is the prevention of pesty corn borer spread. Stover rotting in the fields carries the borer over from one growing season to the next...
...vast difference between an "anarchical communist" and an "idealistic anarchist" is, of course, that between a resolute, active borer from within Society, and a dreamy yearner after millennium. But the Court, a military tribunal, seemed unimpressed by even so glaring a disparity...
...Passed a bill authorizing $7,000,000 for continued warfare by the Department of Agriculture upon the corn borer...
Cunard Plans. The Cunard Line is also planning a thousand-foot ship for transatlantic service, to be built on the Clyde or the Tyne. Company officials held a secret meeting in London last week. Their general passenger manager in the U. S., Harold P. Borer, attended. Said he: "It should be possible to fill ships of any size which would be placed on the Atlantic...
...President signed the Purnell bill appropriating $10,000,000 to battle the corn borer, famed farmers' pest (TIME, Jan. 17); asked for an additional $10,000,000. On the same day he signed another bill excluding from the U. S. mails: revolvers, pistols and all weapons capable of being concealed on one's person...