Word: borer
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...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...
...price of July corn on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped a cent a bushel last week. The hand of Farmer Love quivered as he wrapped the specimen, despatched it to the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In that tiny package was a noxious pest, the European corn borer...
Inspectors rushed to Kankakee County to search for the devastating bug; the corn borer committee of the Illinois Agriculture Association called a meeting to plan precautionary measures; the U. S. House of Representatives prepared to act on the Purnell corn borer eradication bill, asking for an appropiation...