Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things happen in fruit orchards from indiscriminate use of DDT. The woolly aphis is not bothered much by DDT, while the Aphelinus parasite, which normally discourages woolly aphis, is wiped out entirely. In orchards where the red spider has been kept under control by its enemies, "trees have been literally scarlet with red spiders after being sprayed with...
...index, which had been at its 1945 high point of 232 in February and March, hit an October low at 163. Then production began to climb, and in spite of strikes recovered to nearly 70% of the wartime high before the year's end. Nor did anything disastrous happen to the economy when federal spending plummeted. The economic barometers went down, but they were not jarred enough to fall off the wall...
...even these figures did not fully reflect the wild spending of the nation's buying spree. Said one Los Angeles retailer: "God knows what would happen if we could get everything we could sell...
...front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen in Siam...
...hard for many of them to believe that they can probably regain independence, of a sort. But Boston's Surgeon Donald Munro, who has seen it happen, is sure that they can. Says he: "If he is properly treated, every patient with a spinal cord injury who is intelligent and cooperative and has the use of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles can be made ambulatory . . . lead a normal social life and . . . earn a satisfactory living...