Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasshopper war is expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims that every dollar it spends on scotching grasshoppers saves $55 worth of crops...
...Indonesia album is an aural education in itself. There is a Javanese war dance-written on the seven-tone pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
...scene is the 1880s, when France had just shipped the Statue of Liberty (in 200-odd cases) to the U.S. The plot concerns a circulation war over the statue between Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. World and James Gordon Bennett's N.Y. Herald. A Herald photographer brings over from Paris the girl who was Sculptor Bartholdi's model for the statue-only it turns out that she wasn't. The customary hocus-pocus leads to the customary happy ending...
...onetime cowboy, who left school after the sixth grade, Keener picked up his basic engineering in survey work for the Colorado Power Co., in 1934 founded his own company. From one employee, it grew during World War II, when Keener built ammunition plants, to 800 men, has netted Keener a tidy personal fortune...
Died. Lieut. General Barton K. Yount (ret.), 65, who supervised the instruction of over 2,000,000 World War II flyers and technicians at 453 training schools; at Oak Creek Lodge, Ariz...