Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
...returned to active service as Air Force officers, were in the process of making air rescues of American troops cut off in Red territory in the Korean war. Both rescues were complicated by pretty, willful females-Canyon's by Dr. Deen Wilderness and Terry's by Nurse Spray O'Hara...
With his mouth full of gasoline for an aerial spray effect, Flamo misjudged and blew himself to the hospital. Mannix applied for the job and got it. Step Right Up! is his amusing if sketchy story of what happened to him in the next few seasons with various carnival shows...
...comment on the current value of the dollar was made at a Neiman-Marcus fashion show in Dallas. Instead of using the conventional costly flowers and bows, an enterprising milliner trimmed a green straw frame with a spray of thirty-two $1 bills. After it was modeled, the chic number was presented with the compliments of the store to a visitor: U.S. Treasurer Georgia Neese Clark. Said she, trying it on: "I'm sure this is one hat that's worth the money...
...militarily efficient. An enemy might explode his bombs on the ground or, particularly in an attack on river-girdled New York City, might set them off under water deliberately sacrificing some of their blast effect. In such cases, radioactive contamination would become a massive problem. The deadly dust or spray drifting slowly downwind would not be obviously dangerous. Its radiation could not be detected by any human sense, and a man might absorb a fatal dose of it before feeling any ill effect...