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...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...
Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, gaunt, hard-bitten leader of Carlson's Marine Raiders, just back from Saipan's front line, where he was drilled in the arm and leg by Jap bullets, was visited at a San Diego hospital by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their eldest son, Colonel James Roosevelt. Said Carlson elsewhere: "I received my first Purple Heart for wounds in action during World War I, in France. If I can just keep them spaced this far apart I'll be all right...
Even the most skeptical military man had to concede that the Allied fifth column in France was more than an emotional exaggeration. The French Forces of the Interior, under the hard-bitten Foreign Legionnaire, General Joseph Pierre Koenig, were now a definite part of the Allied armies...
...must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever while picking ticks off his pet dog; 3) Deale and Shadyside (combined pop. 300), in Maryland's Ann Arundel County, where two people have died and three others have caught...
...Petrunkevitch regards fear of spiders as mischievous nonsense. Spiders, says he, never attack people unless hurt. He has handled hundreds of tarantulas, never been bitten. With evangelical fervor he points out that the spider is immensely useful to man; it carries no diseases, destroys many insects that do. The strong, fine strands of spider webs have been very helpful in the wartime manufacture of optical instruments and range finders. Says Pete Petrunkevitch, unmindful of Miss Muffet: "Only in civilized cities like New York and New Haven are the ladies afraid of spiders. In tropical lands the people value their presence...