Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gooseneck trailer trucks. But the village's white residents scattered-"the D.P.s of World War III," they call themselves. New Ellenton was too much of a boom town for their taste; its population reached 4,000 within a few months. Some of its business enterprises: Atomic Motor Sales, Oak Ridge Grocery, Atomic Drive...
...Oak Ridge National Laboratory last 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...
...typhoon of frantic activity that sweeps everything before it - including Carter himself. This pays off for both Carter and Fort Worth. But his old friends know a deeper reason. Whether he is giving away hats, tracts of land, scholarships, or popcorn & peanuts at his 900-acre Shady Oak Farm, his friends see a poor boy acting out his dreams...
...longer dons a cowboy suit for the annual fat stock show (Amon Carter, president), and seldom wears his checked gambler's suit with electrically illuminated necktie for soirees at Shady Oak Farm. Nevertheless, when he goes abroad, he wears his western hat and cream-colored polo coat, and people say, if they don't know him by sight, "There goes a sport," or, if they are Texans, "a nach...