Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nancy Bruff, whose high-pressured novel The Manatee made her one of Park Avenue's greatest women writers, celebrated the pleasures of motherhood in a little piece for the New York Journal-American. In conclusion she informed her readers: "As for myself, I hope to produce another book and another baby next year...
Last year, a group of nature-loving scientists at New York's American Museum of Natural History decided to find out how DDT could be used against harmful insects without hurting innocent wildlife. As a test area they chose five square miles of Bear Mountain Park, a popular resort infested with pestiferous, germ-spreading flies...
They did not drench the entire five square miles with DDT. Instead, fly expert Dr. C. H. Curran began to prowl the park, mapping it from a fly's point of view. From intimate knowledge of fly psychology, he knew what places they would consider beauty spots, where they would go for refreshment, amusement and procreation...
...those favorite resorts, but no others, he ordered sprayed with long-lasting DDT dissolved in kerosene with other killer chemicals. Last week he proudly announced the result: after two seasons, extermination. Employes at the park inn and camps never saw a fly all summer, though dining rooms went unscreened, food unguarded. The park's wildlife population was practically unaffected. Total cost for this year: $700, or 1? per guest per week...
...range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...