Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps for the benefit of other TIME readers who might care to help, we should print here the addresses of the United Service for New Americans and the Catholic Committee for Refugees. The first is 15 Park Row, the second 265 West 14th Street - both in New York City...
...Take Care of Him." The next evening Johnny West began asserting himself. He forced a sedan to the side of the road in the hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You're going too fast-give me your driver's license." The driver, a farmer named James Smith, refused. Johnny West pulled a pistol, shot him through the head...
...still snarling with braggadocio a few minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
...Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
Rats & Shaving Brushes. The P.H.S. was established in John Adams' administration, on July 16, 1798, to care for ailing seamen. Its job still begins at the water's edge. Quarantine Servicemen inspect arriving ships (and planes) for victims of smallpox, plague, cholera, typhus, yellow fever (the five diseases defined as "quarantinable" by international agreement). Those with other communicable diseases are passed on to local health authorities to deal with. On all ships the P.H.S. looks for evidence of rats,* which might carry plague. They check imported shaving brushes for signs of anthrax...