Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice President Wallace arrived at his office with a fine scratch on his nose. Hit himself with his own racquet playing early-morning tennis, he said...
...Army's Ordnance Department is to supply the Army with guns and tanks, powder and explosives. On the business of turning out powder, for everything from pistols to 16-in. guns, Ordnance had to start pretty close to scratch...
...seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals, but had to scratch because of his dislocated shoulder...
...From Scratch. The Red Cross Corps had to start literally from scratch, for the entire army was infested with lice, and lice carry typhus and relapsing fever. Bamboo delousing stations have been set up all over China. Many hospitals have no sterilizers, so the doctors use clay pots; surgical instruments are beaten out of old knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they...
...Shealy is not starting from scratch. Florida is the oldest cattle State in the union; its first herds were brought by the Spaniards 300 years ago. But by 1906 cattle ticks had so ravaged the beasts that the Government banned the interstate shipment of southern cattle. In 1930, Florida ranchers had only 431,000 cattle, one-half the 1910 total. Then State-enforced "dipping" (in arsenic solution) started a comeback. The Florida Department of Agriculture now boasts of 1,400,000 head. But many Florida cattle are still underfed and mangy, bring only $20.90 a head (against a national average...