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Show Radio Wages Crusade on Fuzzy Caterpillar Boston. Many and varied are the accomplishments of radio, but one of the most unique achievements on record rec-ord is believed to be the tent caterpillar cater-pillar crusade of the Radio Nature league. The crusade brought about the destruction of 300,000,000 of the "crawlers." This novel campaign was conducted by Thornton W. Burgess, founder and director of the Itadio Nature league, a regular feature on the schedule of station WBZ. The crusade lasted three weeks. It was conducted as a contest, with several sev-eral worthwhile prizes offered. More than a million egg masses, which would have yielded approximately 300,000,000 crawdy furry tent caterpillars, cater-pillars, were destroyed by the ardent contestants. Two abreast and end to end, the exterminated pests would form a line 3.S59 miles long. |