Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist James T. Farrell disclosed in Florida, where he is loafing and avoiding typewriters, that he has at last decided to sell the movie rights to his American hero, boozy, wench-chasing Studs Lonigan. Said he: "I wrote Studs when I was 25, and I've held off selling him for another 25 years. But the movies have now grown up enough to handle a big mischievous boy like Studs...
...University Band has ordered a new bass drum, and expects delivery by the beginning of May. The 72-by-28-inch drum will be the largest in the United States, thus regaining the distinction temporarily lost to the University of Florida...
Knipling's Machiavellian scheme was given a preliminary tryout in Florida with good results. Then last year an entomological task force invaded the Dutch island of Curacao in the Carribbean, where screw worms were strongly in possession. Supplied by air with male flies raised in Florida (on blood and horse meat) and sterilized by gamma rays from Cobalt 60, the experimenters released them on the island at the rate of 400 males a week for each square mile...
Results came quickly. Wounded goats exposed to the flies showed clusters of screw worm eggs, but many proved infertile. The females that laid the eggs had mated with sterilized males from Florida. After seven weeks, all eggs were infertile, and the screw worm population dropped toward the vanishing point. No eggs at all were collected after mid-October, and since November there have been no signs of screw worms on the island...
...U.S.D.A. entomologists are figuring out how many sterilized males wil be needed to hunt down all the females in the state of Florida. They are even hoping to use the same method to exterminate other insect pests whose females are equally monogamous...