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...Army and Navy, in official manuals, advise that if no other food is available, men lost in the jungle can eat termites (with wings removed), grasshoppers, crickets, ant eggs, beetle grubs. Further light on bugs as food was shed recently in the Australian Medical Journal...
...College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...
...best to liquidate her love for a Medical Corps Lieutenant (George Reeves) in the name of duty. She fails. Nurse O'Doul (Miss Goddard), a handsome 110-lb. of salt-of-the-earth with an incurable penchant for sheer black night gowns, kids around tenderly with a pleas ant ex-footballing Marine named Kansas (Newcomer Sonny Tufts). Nurse D'Arcy (Miss Lake), having seen her fiance killed at Pearl Harbor, is a personnel problem (see cut), interested in no men except Japanese, whom she is interested strictly in killing. She is removed from the story halfway through when...
Some live inside and wander outside for food, while some live outside and forage inside for food. It is a rather difficult problem to determine which ant comes from without and is what you might call an Engineering ant, and which ant comes from within and would be called a Quartermaster ant. Some of our ants appear to be going in circles and others apparently are wandering at random with no thought of destination. Such ant tactics are very confusing and could result in a Quartermaster ant being exterminated by an Engineering poison, or an Engineering ant exterminated...
...view of the fact that Quartermaster-issued poison has been found to kill an ant just as dead as Engineering-issued poison-and vice versa-request is made that your office draw identical poisons for issue to this office from both Engineering and Quartermaster, and mix same so that there will be no way of knowing which poison killed the ant-the assumption being that no well-bred G.I. ant would eat other than poison issued through proper channels to final destination, which destination being the aforementioned dead or dying ant...