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...farmers. The U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The Bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by whirling disks which the farmers rig on the rear axles of old automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Dinner on the Ground | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...playing against the Scoreboard in their year-round circuit of medal-play tournaments, many an able pro succumbs to fluttering nerves in a man-to-man contest. But to most U. S. pros there is a hobgoblin even more terrifying: a wispy, 135-lb. colleague affectionately known as "Little Poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Poison | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Little Poison" is Paul Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., teaches it at White Plains's Metropolis Club and never ceases to concentrate on it in tournament play. Ever since 1934, when he defeated his onetime boss, slugging Craig Wood, in the final of the P. G. A. championship and went on to become the No. 1 pro that year, Paul Runyan has made a specialty of killing off golfing titans with his deadly potions of accuracy and control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Poison | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...following notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in San Francisco | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

THEY TALKED OF POISON - March Everymay-Macmillan ($2). At a meeting of a crime seminar in a university near Baltimore a dog dies of strychnine, and the deaths of a parson and his daughter (from different causes) follow. Long-winded but literate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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