Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth's bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days...
...Duke of Kent is expected soon to inspect the pilot-training setup in Canada. Meantime his Duchess ducked reviewing a detachment of WRENS in England. Announced trouble: a cold. Real trouble: a wasp bite under her beautiful right...
Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...
Ford rearmament projects include contracts for 1,500 Army bantam combat cars ("Blitz buggies") and, far more important, for 4,200 Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp engines. The Blitz buggies had already begun to roll off the assembly line, but the new $22,000,000 plant to house production of the aircraft engines was still abuilding. Work on it ceased when A.F. of L. construction workers refused to venture past the C.I.O. picket lines...
Having long since trained his noted eyebrows to face whatever task the febrile fancy of Hollywood directors may dream up for him, Thin Man Bill Powell, unprotected even by mustache, warped resolutely into a wasp-waist coat, prepared to play a female role in his newest picture...