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Tooth & Claw. In Newton, Mass., six-month-old C. Melvin Grindrod swallowed a bell, bit the doctor's fingers with his new teeth, maintained the bite until given a whiff of ether...
...always been performed on sheltered laboratory rats. For his own tests, he hunted down more than 100 wild rats in Baltimore alleys and warehouses, caged them and gave them the standard dose of shrill whistles and air blasts. Contrary to expectations, the wild rats got mad and tried to bite the whistles...
...poured out $18,609,000,000, or 13.5 cents out of every dollar it spent for war. But the report also pointed up the decline in shipments. The passing of the peak gave the U.S. a breather. It could look back and see just how big a bite Lend-Lease had taken out of the U.S. economy...
British and U.S. troops every day practice assault tactics along Britain's serrated coasts, grimly splashing ashore under live gunfire, simulating actual battle, sometimes dying in the winter waves. Camouflaged trucks rumble endlessly through country lanes. Farmers' fields feel the strange bite of tank treads. By night the R.A.F.'s soft drumming fills the sky. By day people stop still in the streets to watch the silvery bomber formations high overhead: "Blimey, look how tight those Americans keep together...
...Coop, sales of earmuffs, woolen stockings, and gloves have tripled, while underwear remained steady. Earmuffs, scarce because they contain steel, threatened to sell out soon if the frost continues to bite students' ears...