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...obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during the 19th century, and one?Paris green?was used against the Colorado potato beetle in the U.S. during the 1860s...
...matter when he asked: "Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land?" No, we shall not, was the answer, and so there came the thousands of Irish starved by the potato famine of 1845, and thousands more of Germans oppressed after the uprisings of 1848, and still more thousands of Russian Jews afflicted by the czars' pogroms, and then in 1882 Congress passed the first immigration laws barring lunatics, convicts and Chinese laborers. The principle of "selectivity" had been born...
Very little is pretty about Soweto, not even the name (which rhymes with potato). It derives from no tribal dialect but from "southwestern township," its location, eight miles southwest of the larger white city. Soweto is actually a black bedroom community for Johannesburg. Most of the adults commute daily aboard crowded, segregated trains to jobs in the city. Few whites return the visits. To enter Soweto, a white person must obtain a special permit good only for daylight hours, a day at a time...
...then began to scramble for potatoes, which he knew he would have to deliver by last week. With offers of cash and his own stock of potatoes, he managed to settle some of his contracts. For the rest, he sent agents to Maine's Aroostock County, heart of the state's potato business, to try to round up spuds from farmers with cash offers of $6.50 to $8. There were a few takers, but most of the Maine farmers balked because they had received other offers as high as $15 from export agents-some of the longs...
...major holder of unfulfilled contracts, to see if a compromise price could be worked out. Simplot offered Collins $10 to buy back his contracts, but Collins wanted $12.50. If they cannot agree, the exchange will decide a fair price for them and thus settle by fiat the great potato battle...