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...from the Public Works fund, $150,000.000 from the Relief Administration, release 2,000,000 men from local and State relief rolls at once, put 2,000,000 other unemployed to work by Dec. 15. CWA workers will be employed on small local projects (playgrounds, sanitation, pest control, repairs), will work a 3O-hr. week, will receive until Feb. 1 approximately $50 a month...
Some people find the cricket's song strangely soothing. To other people the insect is an unredeemed pest. Besides making a noise, which it hushes when irate insomniacs turn on lights to search it out, the cricket eats clothes, rugs, furniture, meat, bread, vegetables...
...going to extirpate Marxism!" shouted Captain Göring amid applause from the conservative Pomeranian Landbund. "I am going to keep my fist on the neck of these creatures until they are finished. We are not only going to extirpate the pest but we are going to tear the word Marxism out of every book. In 50 years nobody in Germany is going to know what the word means...
...solemn thing? A Cleveland churchman soon arose so to accuse him. In a Sunday sermon Rev. Howard Harper of Grace Episcopal Church, South, pointed out that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
...interested to learn that the potoroo is considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...