Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With those wistful words, Mary Martin keynotes another wistful week of revivals and reissues in pop records. Mary stars in a revival of Babes in Arms (Columbia, 2 sides LP), with its spray of winsome songs by Rodgers and Hart (Where or When, My Funny Valentine, Johnny One Note). Among the reissues...
There was a young farmer named Graham, Who, though bugs ate his crops, wouldn't spray 'em. He explained: "I've a droll But effective control: I just catch all the females and spay...
...reply. "You are considerably interested," he wrote Robert Lealess of Vancouver, "in a variety of effects that can be arrived at through experimental use of your materials, and you seem to be aware of the accidental effects that can result from lines, calligraphy, blots and the use of a spray...
...read Curator Key's comments with glee. He handed the picture and the curator's letter to the local press, explaining that Melancholia in a Swamp was nothing but a piece of cardboard that had been used by commercial artists for wiping their brushes and testing their spray guns. All Lealess did was pick it out of the wastebasket, mount it and give it a title...
...Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three to ten days, the leaves yellowed. The following year the mesquite failed to leaf again, but grass underneath the mesquite was not affected. Spraying with 2,4,5-T is inexpensive: $3.50 to $4 an acre. Last year, experiments on 300,000 acres were so successful that...