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Last week Dr. Patrick D. Pielou of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory at Belleville, Ont. told how he hopes to lick this problem. Dr. Pielou breeds friendly bugs called Macrocentrus (which attack the destructive Oriental fruit moth) and exposes each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived...
...letter to TIME, Sept. 25. He stated: "... The Reds . . . might not want to push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...
...Saigh's words for him), but Saigh had obviously had allies among the other clubs.* Moreover, the anti-Chandler owners had had an unintentional ally in Happy himself. Four days before the voting, Happy had blabbed to reporters that he thought a total U.S. mobilization would very likely wipe out professional baseball. Club owners are allergic to that kind of talk...
...Illud) calling for a "sacred crusade" for peace. Though destined for other purposes, the human mind, he said, has devised "instruments of war of such power as to raise horror in the souls of all honest persons, above all because they do not strike only the armies but often wipe out private citizens-children, women, the aged and the sick-and with them sacred buildings and the most outstanding monuments...
Speaking at Rindge Tech auditorium with Louis B. Nichols, Assistant Director of the F.B.I., and Irving H. Saypol, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the topic, "Crime in the United States," Sprigle said, "Ten honest aggressive cops could wipe out the rackets in Boston. When you hear anyone asking for federal laws to end racketeering, remember that it exists only with the permission and cooperation of local law enforcing bodies...