Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Great Plains Experimental Range at Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
...spoken out for cuts in defense spending, greater economies in ECA operations, and a tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea of giving the farmer special treatment . . . No one has any idea how much the Brannan plan would cost. I think that's one place we could make big savings...
Madness is the subject of this play, and it receives an excellent treatment in the hands of the Brattle Company and its guest star Ian Keith, who gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. "Henry IV" was one of the plays which won its author, Pirandello, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. It is a provocative and ingenious investigation of sanity and reality, which uses the play-within-a-play idea. But with a difference...
...contact with a large number of students. No one could possibly defend it as the best educational method for groups small enough to be organized as conferences. Such groups, particularly in foreign literature, predominate in Sever. Both by custom and by form however, they are receiving the same treatment as classes...
Phillip Murray especially gets what seems unfair treatment. The man who led the organizing drive of the steel industry, who got U. S. Steel to sign a contract without a strike in 1937, who pushed his organizers through the tough "Little Steel" campaigns cannot be dismissed as a Lewis stooge without considerable evidence. Mr. Alinsky fails to point out that Murray may have been far more representative of the sentiments of labor than was Lewis when Murray took over the CIO, and that he certainly has followed since then a policy more sensitive to the needs and desires...