Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Entomologist R. C. Bushland of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
Since the X-ray process was expensive, Bushland is now experimenting at Oak Ridge with radioactive cobalt, a cheap source of sterilizing radiation. Soon he plans to go south and hatch clouds of flies out of washtubs full of hamburger. One pound of hamburger, he figures, is good for 500 flies...
...times in the first period, three in the second, and seven in the final period in completely overwhelming Cooney Weiland's men. The Crimson lit the light once in the second period and twice in the last, but none of the goals were the result of planned plays. Morgy Hatch...
Although unhappy over Clasby's loss. Coach Cooney Welland was more enthusiastic about his second, "all-senior" line: Bill Timpson centering for Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris...
...Hatch has recently returned to full service after injury...