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...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...
...third day the navigator died. He too had drunk sea water. "He go crazy," said Gus, "he scream and jump overboard." Sam Luttrell covered his wife and son with his trench coat, lay on top of them to shield them from the freezing spray. On the fourth morning, shivering in a sweatshirt and dungarees, Kathleen Luttrell, who had once danced in the Ziegfeld Follies, died. Her husband did not last long after. "The little boy Sammy," Gus said sobbing, ". . . all last night he cry and cry for his mamma and papa. He lay on them...
...play golf, quit on the first hole, came back slapping at his legs, arms and neck. There was a run on the dispensary's supply of insect repellent. Then the word went out from the Little White House, and Navy fighters whipped low over the area to spray DDT from their belly tanks. Truman, who has often commented that he is thick-skinned, said the mosquitoes weren't bothering him at all. Despite all the excitement, there were some who seemed slow to realize that Harry Truman was in town. A letter addressed to him was delivered late...