Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some day take over his own. As Illinois Entomologist George Decker put it last week: man "is a late arrival who has attempted to displace a well-adjusted and highly versatile original population, which bars no holds to recover its lost property." In Los Angeles, Decker and his fellow bug specialists were gathered at the first annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, to exchange intelligence reports on the warfare between insect and man. By & large, their findings held little comfort for man. Among them...
...damage done to crops and farm land by insects, even in the bug-conscious U.S., is still immense. Said Decker: "Each year in the United States [insects] destroy crops, livestock and farm products equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the New England states, plus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...Bug Finder. An X-ray machine that shows up tiny insects in stored grain was announced by du Pont. Using the machine, one man can inspect 80 grain samples a day, v. 25 to 50 samples with the old method of cracking open kernels and floating the particles in mineral oil or gasoline. Price: $2,300 for X-ray unit and darkroom equipment...
Last week, after ten days had gone by with no new rumors on the board, President Miller thought that his men had got the bug out of their systems. The Rumor Factory was draped in black crepe, loaded on a truck and hauled off Stallings Field. Said Miller: "The air is much better around here now. Morale is high and tension has dropped. It's wonderful...
...Careful always to distinguish between "Soviet microbiology" and the ordinary kind, Prague's Dr. K. Raska offered a solution to a medical puzzle: Why has the scarlet-fever bug dwindled in virulence during the past 50 years? The Soviet-style answer: "Deep social changes...