Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your June 7 issue, you publish a letter from Mr. Arthur Tuckerman, of Gstaad, Switzerland, about a master-ratsman dog Bippo, referring to Standard Oil's cat Minnie (TIME, April 12). As the subject appears to possess so much public interest, may I not contribute the following additional information re animal rat-slayers on corporate payrolls...
...Cats used to get 50 centavos a day "liver money." When the late Depression-remember the Depression ?-was at its worst, a reduction was ordered in the foreign technical staff, and salary cuts for those that remained. Now, cats are foreign staff, in that they do not come under any of the Argentine labor laws or the contract with the labor federation. And if a cat's a good mouser, he sure has to be a technician. It was unanimously decided not to fire any of the feline personnel, but they did have to stand a salary...
...association similar to that of Pan American and Imperial but as unstable as an alliance between cat and dog was formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital...
...Tuttle, who took a nap in court while a score of other witnesses told how their pets had died or become sick after she fed them, freely admitted occasional cat killings, "to put them out of their misery." "But," she explained. "I never picked up an animal that was licensed or had a home...
...Pictures are too ephemeral in time and material to create an art. The test of an art is endurance. . . . The films have as much chance against the Theatre as a celluloid cat chasing an asbestos rat through Hell...