Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to 270-lb. Jim Button, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices...
Egg Count. Dutton's experts start each summers campaign the previous autumn estimating the number of eggs that have been laid just under the ground in the chief breeding areas. Then the division publishes a brightly colored grasshopper map showing ranchers and farmers where to expect trouble.
The grasshopper war is expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims...
Died. Major General Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death...
Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the...