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...Hard Way. Wehran, a Marine pilot in World War I, then a barnstormer and a booking agent for Alaska bush flyers, got acquainted with Teterboro the hard way. He crashed there in 1924. In 1941, when he cast a speculative eye at it, the gone-to-weed field did not look much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more...
Millions of dollars worth of Cuban sugar may be saved as the result of experiments involving successful use of the new weed-killing preparation 2, 4-D against tree-like woody weeds, it was announced by the University yesterday...
...discovery was made by Kenneth V. Thimann, Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced something promising: a synthetic weed killer, isopropyl-N-phenyl carbamate (IPC), which does away with at least one kind of grass without hurting certain broad-leaved crops such as sugar beets and spinach...