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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suggest that we utilize only known large-scale reserve of food which is ready to ship immediately and has not already been figured into the national food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
Sardinia's invader (Dociostaurus maroccanus) somewhat resembles the red-legged grasshopper of the U.S. Peasants have fought them every year in the memory of man, but never on such a scale. Since the last week in April, every able-bodied Sardinian has been mobilized to fight the scourge, backed by a 500 million lira ($2,222,222) Government subsidy. They struck at the advancing insect columns with weapons ranging from rakes and shovels to poisoned bran and flamethrowers. But the locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under...
...elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...scientific writer asserts that Goodpasture's development of viruses in chick embryo-which opened the way for large-scale production of vaccines against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
...Herald reporter (at $34.79 a week, the Newspaper Guild scale for beginners), Phoebe Hearst gets up early, drives to work (at 7:30 a.m.) in her Buick convertible coupe, gets half an hour for lunch, tries hard to please everybody. Her grandfather said he could fix it with the city editor to give her easier hours, but she said no. "I'm learning a different side of life," said the fledgling Hearstling last week, "and meeting some strange people-interesting in their own little...