Word: infects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bacteria found in deep sea mud might soon make oil wells as buggy as vinegar works. Last week Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., announced that he was well along on a process to infect exhausted oilsands with these bacteria...
...market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
Blister rust cannot live on pine alone. The spores which leave the pine must find a temporary resting place on the leaves of currant or gooseberry bushes. There they develop as parasitic growths which generate a new and different generation of windborne spores which, in turn, infect the pines. These bushes are the chief points of attack for the conservation army. Once the host is destroyed, blister rust must ultimately...
...West Coast jitters did not infect the U.S. Public Health Service, which has seen cases drop from 48,907 in 1930, to 346 in 1945. Said Assistant Surgeon General R. C. Williams: "Smallpox is now practically a self-limiting disease. When ever you get a scare, everyone within 100 miles gets vaccinated...
...some other countries (e.g., France, Italy) Russia is for the moment content to infect a minority big and influential enough to prevent policies she considers highly undesirable, though not big enough to get control. Still a third group of countries (e.g., India, Spain) is exposed to Communist contagion, largely because their present regimes have not solved pressing political and social problems...