Word: pest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature," explained Dr. Wendell Holmes Tisdale, "there is no such thing as a pest. But in human economy, anything that competes with man for his means of subsistence may be considered a pest...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...Harwood stage piece "Man in Possession". It gives them little to go on, and they get even by giving it little in return. It is all about a black sheep, lovable as all black sheep are, who pursues his nincompoop brother's fiancee, first as a pest, then as a sheriff's deputy, and then as a butler. Of course the respectable brother doesn't want her any more when he finds she's a pauperess, so the black sheep gets her and all is bliss...
...pleasant slumber and voraciously torn limb from limb. Though it is difficult to see any material decline in Massachusetts education since the enactment of the Oath Bill last year, nuisance legislation, like a docile canine with fleas, is obviously bothersome. For attempting to drive out this undemocratic pest the leaders of the prospective gathering in Emerson D deserve congratulations...
...Congress the President sent a report of his National Resources Committee with a message urging adoption of its six-year, $5,000,000.000 program of coordinated public works. The Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent...