Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much liked your story ... At the same time, may I put in a "well done" for Mr. Howe? We are proud of him. My ambition has always been to move to the U.S.A., but after this, I wonder, maybe the grass is greener here. J. E. POLLAND COTE St. Ephrem de Beauce...
...People Act (Sun. 10:05 p.m. CBS). A series on grass-roots democracy...
...MacArthur." New Hampshire has a "MacArthur for President" committee. Texas has launched a "Demand MacArthur" movement which hopes to spread well beyond the Lone Star border. As one of its quietly enthusiastic sponsors, Dallas Printer William S. Henson, explained last week: "We've got a lot of little grass fires going all over the country, and there will be more of them by convention time. We aren't fighting anybody. We are just waiting." What they are waiting for: a situation in which Eisenhower and Taft supporters knock each other out in the Republican National Convention, leaving MacArthur...
...grubby rooms on the second floor of the Tremont building in downtown Boston are the the nerve center of the Eisenhower-for-President boom in Massachusetts. Working amid half-opened bundles of pamphlets marked MASSACHUSETTS--IKE--RUSH, the State Sponsoring Committee for Eisenhower is trying to translate the grass roots sentiment for Ike into convention votes...
...Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three to ten days, the leaves yellowed. The following year the mesquite failed to leaf again, but grass underneath the mesquite was not affected. Spraying with 2,4,5-T is inexpensive: $3.50 to $4 an acre. Last year, experiments on 300,000 acres were so successful that Fisher and staff propose to spray 1,000,000 acres this year...