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...last week its first large-scale offensive with hope of success was under way. The offensive was made possible by a newly developed weapon, the Bacillus papillae, which kills grubs under the soil before they turn into the brown-winged green beetles which every summer ravage the Atlantic seaboard from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound...
...ripples in a pool, the beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life as grubs, damaging lawns, links and pastures by eating grass roots...
...flush and 21 with NBC tucked in its corporate back pocket, RCA is still inquisitive. Spotted along the eastern seaboard are eight of its laboratories, where 600 engineers try to improve radio's present, dope out its future. Equipped to examine everything from a $9 receiver to the most complicated electronic devices, the research units are the best in existence. But the best isn't good enough for RCA. Last week RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the company was preparing to build at Princeton, N. J. "the world's largest radio research laboratories," complete with lecture...
...climax to a heavy spring schedule which includes a tour of the eastern seaboard, the Glee Club will make three appearances in Symphony Hall, singing two concerts alone and one with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...course of time these scholarships, because of their large stipends, became the most desirable awards in the college. Thus the eastern part of the nation tended to be disregarded as the West received more and more of these academic plums, although actually the amounts offered to the Atlantic seaboard did not decrease...