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...this year no one has died of the plague. Usually one or two persons a year are attacked-a woman in California who buried a chipmunk; a boy in Idaho who stole a magpie's egg from a nest littered with half-eaten remains of ground squirrels; a hunter in Wyoming who bagged a jack rabbit. The disease is chiefly transmitted from beast to beast and beast to man, by fleas. In human beings it takes three forms, identical in cause and in effect (probably death within a week...
Nine surplus commodities have thus been eaten up in the past 13 weeks. Lettuce (featured May 11-25) had a harvest of 55% above average; spinach, 10% more than usual; asparagus, 57% higher than normal (both were featured June...
...bomber formations broke and their pilots struck for home-all but four, which plowed on toward Chungking. Near the edge of the city the fighters caught them. They jettisoned their bombs in open fields and streaked away. From its dugouts, after three hours, Chungking emerged. Its cakes had been eaten, its morale bolstered by what U.S. flyers, with Chinese help, had done that night...
...broil its way through. Incidentally, the percentage of shot-down pilots who managed to find their way back through the jungles is phenomenally high. They often must swim down rivers to the sea, risking crocodiles. If shot down over the sea they risk being eaten by sharks 30 feet long and more...
Hers was a full childhood. Beryl used to rip out the quivering stomachs of freshly slain reedbuck to feed her dogs. She was once (as a Sikh phrased it to her father) "moderately eaten" by a lion. Attacked by her father's pet baboon, she beat it to death with her knobkerrie...