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Automatic Gardener. Texas Lawn Sprinkler Co. is selling an electric control that automatically turns on an underground sprinkler system and waters a lawn when it needs it. Two electrodes keep track of the moisture in the air and soil can be set to turn on the sprinkler system if the moisture falls below a certain point. Price of the sprinkler system varies according to the size of the lawn, e.g., about $2,000 for a 100-by-200-ft. lawn. Price of the control...
...delegations including the Canadians, British and French have protested vigorously against the process. Their protest is, at bottom, a deep concern with any extension of McCarran's investigation to other parts of the U.N. Although Lie has protested that the Secretariat works in a "glass house," and is "unfertile soil" for subversives, he has not resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from the uncertainty at where the investigation, if extended, would stop. They also come from the fear of continued damage to the United Nations that such an investigation in the hands of the Committee...
...keep them from being choked by wild grass, Stahmann built up a flock of 25,000 geese and found that they cleaned out the weeds just as well as Mexican hoe hands, who were hard to hire. Not only did the geese find their own food and enrich the soil with fertilizer, but when the cotton crop was harvested they could be sold. But they were not popular. Reason: high price...
...editorial statement, the Review prescribes the lines of the symposium. The editors cite the tradition of the intellectual's rejection of America the expatriates who felt with Henry James that "the soil of American perception is a poor, little, barren, artificial deposit" and those who remained at home to rail against the "booboisic" and capitalist reaction. All this has changed, however, the editors declare. "The American artist and intellectual no longer feels 'disinherited' . . . most writers . . . want to be very much a part of American life." Essential to this change, the Review decides, is the recognition of America as the defender...
...most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...