Word: spreader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks who turned out were not only entertained but fed ("Free Barbecue at 12 o'clock. Bring your own cups"). He offered to sell anything, from a manure-spreader to a mountainside...
Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to become spies). But the report's dynamite was a list of some 2,500 U. S. companies found as clients of detective agencies. "The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry...
...bristling Clerk Cohen was the Communist dictator of Hungary. After four months he was overthrown by Admiral Nicholas Horthy, present Hungarian strong man, finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard...
Most effective counterattack is to spread poison bait, usually a mixture of bran, sawdust and sodium arsenite. Colorado Entomologist S. C. McCampbell has designed a mechanical spreader which. manned by three men, does the work of 25 men with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into...
...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...