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...slow down a fast growing lawn for a whole season. Mixed with water and sprayed on the most aggressive turf, Kem-Kut slows cell division. The grass stays green but grows no more than it does through a normal winter. Largescale application of Kem-Kut requires a power sprayer that few amateur lawn-tenders are likely to own. But, with only a hand spray, a man can slow up the grass around flower beds, trees and in other hard-to-cut places...
...Killer. Philadelphia's Exterminator Corp. of America began selling a 7-oz. electric sprayer which permeates up to 15,000 cubic feet with a bug-killing chemical called lindane. Price...
Food Machinery Corp. will also build in its ten plants, scattered from California to Florida: 1) a dehydrating haymaker-that cuts hay and rolls it so that all moisture is squeezed out; 2) a new fast-moving sprayer for orchards; 3) a potato-harvesting machine that will dig, brush, grade and box potatoes in the field...
...Maintaining industrial equipment. One massive 9½-ft., 2,400-lb. Diesel crankshaft was worn at its bearing points. Wartime replacement was impossible; in any case, would have taken twelve weeks. A hot-metal sprayer, using 45 lb. of steel wire, resurfaced the worn shaft in ten hours...
...Sickness and injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley Sprayer's Cinderella-man acts in the last two games...