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...fine old Family Curse made a fine news story. Twenty-year-old Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the 5th Earl of Durham, lay dead by "suicide while of unsound mind," according to a coroner's jury. The folk of Northumberland knew that the Curse of the Worm had struck again...
...Worm of Lambton was fished out of the River Wear at the time of the Crusades by Sir John Lambton, angling godlessly on Sunday. Uncommonly ugly and uncommonly strong, the Worm escaped from the well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing...
...Ecuador for its segment of Inter-American highway $1,000,000, an additional $150,000 to fight a cocoa worm...
Defense. Apple-Knocker Byrd's crack about "juggling" the books seemed a good crack to some people, even if his worries about the dim future seemed pretty dim. One worm Byrd pounced on: throughout normal peacetime years, Army & Navy were doled out about $700,000,000 annually. These normal expenditures were this year transferred to emergency defense by Mr. Roosevelt...
...species of earthworms. For feeding chickens, frogs, etc., he produced a meaty hybrid ten inches long. Another hybrid, short and thick, yields a colorless, odorless, volatile oil useful in medicine. A medium-sized hybrid, very tough and vigorous, can be used to recolonize soils whose worm populations have been killed off by strong fertilizers or poison sprays. Oliver calls it his "soilution worm." In California and elsewhere there are several hundred farmers who have planted great batches of eggs, raised earthworm armies in their soil. Some years back, practically all of those farmers were staggering on the brink of bankruptcy...