Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assurance either way. The odds are about 9-to-1 that if he raises the female twin she will be sterile. If she should prove to be fertile, he has won a long-shot bet-he will not have proved very much. That might be too bad, because his veterinarian would probably say "I told you so" instead of looking up the literature. Perhaps Lloyd's who are said to insure anything, might be asked to take a flier on insuring the heifer...
Horse Sleeping Sickness. A dramatic demonstration of just how useful a veterinarian can be and how badly an animal can need him burst on the convention while it was still sitting. In Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Maryland and Virginia an epizootic† of sleeping sickness broke out among horses. Hundreds of horses drooped their heads, leaned against their stall walls, collapsed into the straw, died. Some, excited by the nervous effects of the disease, banged their heads against the stalls, died trying to run on their sides. A vaccine against this disease, which is also called equine encephalomyelitis...
...Shot (RKO) : Guy Kibbee and Cora Witherspoon extracting the last ounce of humor from a story about a veterinarian who uses the fortune he inherits from a racketeer to crusade against rackets...
...commotion. In May the New York Legislature had ordered that every cow in the State, privately milked or not, be tested for tuberculosis. Lawyer Gibson and his wife took lonely counsel with themselves. The Law had them and their cows at bay. Mr. Gibson telephoned for a local veterinarian and one midnight, as the Gibsons sat alone, they heard, from the meadow behind the house, one shot kill Molly Lewis, a second shot kill Sylvia. A man still has the right to kill his own animals...
Murmured State Veterinarian Arthur C. Goebel: "They were beautiful cows, and the only ones in the county not tested...