Word: pears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stocky, pear-shaped Ellis Gibbs Arnall got elected to the Georgia legislature just 13 years after he had worked as a page boy. At his first session, whizbang Arnall was named speaker pro tern...
...wide sheared-steel plate, now running short, a narrower plate produced in strip mills was substituted. Subcontracting was tackled hard by men like bull-shouldered, 300-lb. Charles E. Moore. A year ago, seizing on the bankrupt Joshua Hendy Iron Works, a dilapidated foundry in the middle of a pear orchard near Sunnyvale, Calif., Moore cleared off 34 acres of trees, put up 300,000 square feet of buildings, began to turn out mighty, two-story high, 271,000-lb., triple-expansion engines for the Liberty ships. Enough Hendy engines will have been produced...
Tumbling only at the last two gates on the Dollar Mountain slalom course, pert, pear-faced Cinemactress Claudette Colbert skied off with first-place honors in Class A in Sun Valley's first guest slalom race of the season. Her time for the 1-mile track...
Meanwhile the Australian Government sent agents to the Americas to see what the prickly pear's natural enemies were. The agents investigated about 150 insects that feed on cactus and nothing else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly...
Cactoblastis waged its war so well that prickly pear infestation has now been reduced 75% or more. Writes Professor Ramaley: ". . . The scattered remaining plants are not a menace-indeed they are of value for breeding Cactoblastis. Areas of former dense prickly pear are now being used for crops, for dairying and for grazing. . . . [This] land will never revert to its previous useless state...