Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nervous, quick, wary, intolerant, Harry Bridges is scornful of the press, both Right and Left. Even when cornered for an interview, he ignores any questions which he does not choose to answer, punctuates his own points with jerks of his knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a...
Harry Bridges' entrance into C. I. O. may raise another problem for John Lewis. That is the fact that though Harry Bridges is no revolutionist, millions of people think he is. And at the moment the favorite method of attacking C. I. O. is to raise the hoary cry...
Most effective counterattack is to spread poison bait, usually a mixture of bran, sawdust and sodium arsenite. Colorado Entomologist S. C. McCampbell has designed a mechanical spreader which. manned by three men, does the work of 25 men with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a...
In Washington, Department of Agriculture entomologists declared this the worst grasshopper year since 1880. In Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Illinois the damage seemed likely to run close to $100,000,000. To combat the pests the U. S. Government was laying...