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...Experts of the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Public Health Service readily admit that some of them are extremely poisonous to humans as well as to insects and other pests. Parathion. an organic phosphate used against mites and other highly resistant insects, is so deadly that men who spray it must wear respirators and protective clothing...
...didn't think I could stand it another minute." Paul Davies was only 28. but already vice president of a San Francisco bank, when he signed on in 1928 as financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines of farm machinery, food processing and packaging...
...does plenty with Rockefeller wealth. Among them, the brothers are active in some 200 causes, ranging from the Rockefeller Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters to spray coffee trees in Brazil, low-cost housing to rise in Chile, astronomers to search the skies from Mount Palomar, textile machinery to hum in the Congo, supermarkets to peddle groceries in Milan, and antiquarians to admire the re-created haunts of Socrates in Athens...
...first real splash four years ago with sinister black-massed woodworks, given such titles as Moon Dial and Cathedral in the Sky. She denies that she is presently in a gold period, although most of her work, after being lacquered with several coats to seal the wood, is lavishly spray-bombed with a metallic product called Spray-O-Namel...
...first of three, 30-mile heats around the wind-chopped lake, Miss Seattle Too, bounced, dug her nose into a wave, flipped end over end, and disintegrated into a heart-stopping cloud of spray, smoke and plywood. A Coast Guard helicopter plucked Driver Dallas Sartz from the wreckage, miraculously with nothing worse than a broken left leg. No sooner had the next heat roared away around the oblong course than another Seattle boat, Tempest, threw a connecting rod and burst into flames. The Coast Guard whirlybird dipped down to rescue Driver Chuck Hickling, but his boat was severely damaged...