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...result of research by Department of Agriculture scientists, an unskilled la borer can now equal the speed of a shear er by literally peeling wool from a sheep with his bare hands...
...impress Harrison, who decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail shortly before the accident...
...boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...
Last week the department announced that one of the worst crop-eating insects, the European corn borer, has neared the end of its reign of terror in U.S. cornfields. Its conqueror: a fly named Lydella stabulans grisescens, which is mainly responsible for reducing the losses from corn borers from $353 million in 1949 to $85 million in 1950. This year, the department predicts, the losses will be even lower...
Lydella does no harm to crops and attacks no insect except the corn borer. The females tenderly place their infant maggots at the entrances of the corn borers' tunnels. Then the maggots, guided by the peculiar genius of their kind, crawl into the tunnels, find the borers and destroy them by devouring their innards...