Word: weede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says the best way to keep from being raped by a weed is carry a pepper shaker in your purse...
...Chambers made some hard decisions inside I.C.I. He cut its 99,000 employees by 5%, trimmed costs to the point of printing its annual report in newspapers rather than sending copies to almost 475,000 shareholders. The company also stepped up and centralized its research, which has pioneered in weed killers, growth stimulants for plants, antimalarial drugs, improved aviation gas and a cheaper method of producing ammonia...
After the great mechanical mulchers have completed their clattering passage; after the green seedlings have sprouted above black ribbons of polyethylene plastic (TIME, April 19) and the chemical spray guns have finished their hissing attack on bug and weed, the most modern cotton fields in the U.S. are likely to resound to an unexpected and old-fashioned racket. Day after day, nearly a million geese honk their way across the carefully tended farmland. In a time of rising costs and declining markets, cotton growers are showing an expanding enthusiasm for an antiquated agricultural technique known as "cotton goosing...
Geese can be bought for $3 apiece, or rented for as little as $1.50 a season, and their ravenous appetites make them more than a match for marauding Johnson grass-a hardy weed that sprouts between the cotton rows again and again, despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback...
Flashy Stripes. To buy the film and use it costs $58 per acre, and savings in weed control average $12 per acre. At present prices for cotton, the grower would earn an extra $38 per acre by using film. Spencer Chemical Co. and Union Carbide, which manufacture the film and have developed the machines, are so certain that experience with plasticulture will bring even greater benefits that they are spending fortunes in research for the future. If this season's adventurous farmers from California to Texas harvest swollen crops, a good part of the 14,500,000 U.S. acres...