Word: rats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship. In Tokyo, Yasukichi Hashimoto learned that his house had been robbed while he was in jail for burglary, declared, "The only rat who would do such a thing is my friend Kikuchi"; investigation proved him right...
Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...
...Shoot to Sink." No such hallucinations afflicted the principals in a near naval battle off Staten Island last week. The Russian ship Pobeda came into New York harbor with 37 employees for Russia's U.N. delegation. A U.S. health service officer came aboard for routine rat inspection. The Pobeda's captain took umbrage at what he considered an affront to national honor when the inspector claimed to have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy...
Franklin, who never took a sleeping pill in his life ("I can sleep standing or walking"), hopes to put ipecac in rat paste, and other poisons that people sometimes take by mistake. Said he last week: "It isn't only the money which I may make out of this which is exciting, it's the fact that we'll be saving lots of lives...
...rat formula fixed by regulation: if a freighter of 5,000 gross tons or less is found to have more than five rats, it must undergo "de-ratization"; for ships over 5,000 tons, one rat is allowed for every 1,000 tons, with an outside limit of 20 rats. For passenger ships, quarantine officers make their own rules...