Word: pest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
Proper Name. In Los Angeles, the National Pest Control Association, in annual convention, voted to form a women's auxiliary to be known as the Ladybugs...
...Them Vulnerable. Chief reason for this, the authors say, is that not all insects are vulnerable at the same time. Some are tough adults; some are leading sheltered lives under bark or soil. Moderate doses of DDT have little effect on these. If a forest is sprayed when the pest insect is vulnerable, most of the non-pests come through unscathed...
Sometimes insects are benefited by spraying. A woodland plot in Massachusetts, infested with gypsy moth caterpillars, was sprayed with 1.5 lbs. of DDT per acre. With the caterpillars wiped out, the forest remained green and flourishing, and soon had a normal population of non-pest insects. A nearby plot, left unsprayed, was defoliated by the caterpillars and lost two-thirds of its normal insect population...
...Estin, Hans Howard '49, Forsyth, Robert Bruce '49 (Captain), Graham. William George Brown '51. Gregg, Charles Nelson, Jr. '48. Hansen, Richard Brydon '51. Hudner, Richard Reilly '51, Kegg. William Boyd, Jr. '49, Lange, Robert Brookings '49, Mauran, Duncan Hunter '50, Page, Donald Smith '46 ocC, Plissner, William Alan '51, Pest, Richard St. Francis '51, Soule, Lewis Franklin '49. Warning, Bayard David '51, Watera, William Dennis '49 (Manager...