Australia Fights Grasshopper Plague With Planes
In Victoria and New South Wales a massive grasshopper plague threatened crops and pastures, costing millions. Four planes, including three American pilots, battled swarms from dawn to dusk, spraying insecticides and slowing traffic as they cleared swaths of land. Officials credited air support with reducing damage and aiding recovery through rain in some areas.
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Film On Arizona Can Be Borrowed
Washington a new 28 minute motion picture depicting Arizona and its natural resources may be promoted by the US Bureau of Mines. The film covers Painted Desert, Fu and Saguaro and is available from the Orphic Services Bureau of Mines. Prospective borrowers must have 47 5000? and an experienced operator.
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Notre Dame Builds New Atom Smasher in UK Project
South Bend report notes a DIY style science effort tied to Notre Dame with UK links. The plan involves heavy electrostatic generators and thick walls to prevent leakage, aiming to create a powerful atmospheric source for nuclear research.
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Rocking Horse Craft Pattern From Incomplete Instructions
The text describes a cut out activity to make a rocking horse from heavy paper using crayons or colored pencils. It explains pasting, cutting along lines, folding uncut portions, and adding reinforcement with extra heavy paper and a toothpick to keep parts spaced and upright.
Mystery Crossword Puzzle Sparks Railroad Nighttime Tension
A Beeline Special incident centers on a hidden note found after a shooting in compartment 18. Railroad police decode a crossword style message revealing names Black White Brown Green and their wives Blanche Winfred Barbara Grace. The note leads to solving who spent what and who is married to whom through a set of age old puzzle style clues.
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Puzzle laden sci fi fragment and quiz teaser
A fragmented newspaper item blends a space puzzle with light humor and trivia. It features Gogo Moonbeam’s nearly empty atomic rocket fuel gauge, timing questions about clock hands, a Shaw quotation anecdote, and a quirky word puzzle with scrambled texts and errors.
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Cartoon pig drawing lesson for beginners
Our drawing guide explains a simple method to illustrate a big plump pig using two circles as the starting point. Add more circles per steps 2 3 and 4, then erase guide lines to finish the figure. Tracing paper helps initially, then try freehand drawing.
Selecting Art Books and Guides in a 1950s Gift List
A catalog excerpt reviews three works: Yourself Continuing list of select ed or recent know-how for home craftsmen and hobbyists by Bartlett B L Bayes, The Naked Truth and Personal Vision at Addison Gallery, 111 pages. The Microphone and You by Alice Reith, a manual for radio and TV announcers. The Complete Italian Cookbook by Rose L Sorce, Grosset & Dunlap, 362 pages with 800 recipes.
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Fragmented Bible Quiz Clues Spark Confusing Long List
A chaotic OCR style list combines biblical references with scattered terms, numbers, and garbled phrases. It weaves citations from 2 Samuel 24 16 Ezra 10 22 Acts 5 54 and others with miswritten words, numbers, and partial phrases, creating a dense, unreadable item.
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