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...Tied gasoline soaked cotton around a man's legs and set them afire...
...avert surprise invasions by crop pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed fluorescent "lamp traps." Luring the "advance-guard" moths of crop-destroying grubs (e.g., tobacco budworms, cotton bollworms) with near-ultraviolet "black light," the traps soon collect a representative catch, give farmers as much as three weeks' time to prepare counter-measures against each type of invader...
...LOWENSTEIN & Sons, among the six biggest U.S. textile companies, took over stock control of Wamsutta Mills, thereby diversified from cotton dress goods, shirtings, etc. into sheets, foam-rubber pillows, electric blankets. Lowenstein paid $9.50 each for 208,500 of Wamsutta's 396,000 shares outstanding (v. $9.25 over the counter) and offered to buy more at the same price until Sept...
...last surviving wartime-emergency measures for bolstering the domestic economy is the rigid, 90%-of-parity price support for "basic" crops (corn, wheat, cotton, rice and peanuts). Last week the U.S. Senate put the Government-support program on a flexible 82½%-90% formula...
...Wells ballet, Sir Thomas rhapsodied: "I know of little more virile and exciting than the sight of one gentleman weighing about 17 stone-picking up another of similar avoirdupois and throwing him over his head with as much facility and address as if he were handling bales of cotton or sacks of coal. I enjoyed other truly masculine and adult exhibitions of a similar sort which find place rarely in our one and only monopolistic institution...