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...invading their country last week, saw them as an enemy army. Into the attack went an Iranian task force of 28 motorized teams of 68 soldiers each, supported by six C-47 planes, radio jeeps, two squadrons of 80 camels each and 150 technicians. Their objective: to lay poisoned bran over 2,000 square miles...
...bRan for Wade...
...highbrows of the breakfast population, Post's 40% Bran Flakes have started a book service. Twenty-five cents and the box top bring Bantam editions of classics like "Hound of the Baskervilles." Perhaps this is a sign of coming cultural sophistication in the cereal box field. The boxes, after all, next to newspapers, are probably the most widely read breakfast table publications in the country. Someday, perhaps, each cereal will publish a daily edition, imprinted with dispatches from Battle Creek, reproductions of works of the masters, and scores to great pieces of music. And in that day, American culture will...
Thus began the career of W. C. Fields. He slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...
...took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...