Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baffling fungus which threatens to destroy her forest industries...
...Canada's-wheat farmers, rust is as fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed...
...next few weeks 6,000 huskies, sent out by lumber companies and forestry services, will take to the woods, armed for total war. The enemy: white pine blister rust, an incurable fungus infection that is spreading like a blitzkrieg...
...time, in other respects, was not kind to Greenwich. Like an ugly fungus, London crept around King Charles's royal park. The city's smoke blinded the telescopes, corroded metal parts, covered lenses with soot. Electric railways interfered with magnetic observations. Worst were street lights, whose glare outshone the Milky Way. Only British astronomers could have hung on so long...
Fred Allen subbed for Clifton Fadiman on Information, Please, whined in a pre-broadcast warmup: "A [radio] vice president is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conferences. In radio, a conference is a meeting of a group of men who singly can do nothing, but who collectively agree that nothing can be done...