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Another new insecticide, phenothiazine, has been found extraordinarily effective against tent caterpillars, cattle ticks, Mexican bean beetles, corn borers, many another pest...
...Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy-offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home, her old garage, her new garage, a tent on her lawn, a bed under a canopy in her back yard...
...Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap in the Fairgrounds tent while Joe Bailey held an audience spellbound...
...Work. In San Diego, George A. Scott stopped to peer into an air-raid shelter on his way home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...