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...five, only Pessoa is an avowed Communist, but the rest, with strong pro-Communist leanings, have repeatedly fronted for the Reds. None had any special knowledge of bacteriology, entomology or epidemiology-which should have been essential for an investigation of Communist charges that the U.S. was waging war with flea-borne and fly-borne germs...
...friendly troops idle when they might relieve us of some of the Korean burden. Yet, when warned that their brand of sense might force the United States into a general war, these Republicans seem to assume that Mao would no more retaliate on a large scale than cannonade a flea colony. A contradiction lurks here, though the vagaries which often pass for arguments in the GOP, especially on the subject of China, obscure...
...Nipper, the biggest, trotted home. Nobody paid him any attention; Roger's father, scores of neighbors and two state troopers were scouring the countryside for the lost boy. But the next morning Roger's brother Rodney followed the dog. Slowly, and with numberless side expeditions, snuffmgs and flea scratchings, Nipper led the way to the tree with the feet sticking...
...financial flea circus of the '20s, the giant holding companies, Electric Bond & Share and North American, were star performers. Bond & Share, run by Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, controlled five intermediary holding companies, and through them sat on the backs of 231 subsidiaries. Its $3½ billion empire supplied power in 34 states from Florida to Oregon, from Texas to Pennsylvania. North American, the pyramid erected by luxury-loving Harrison Williams (TIME, Jan. 21), at one time supplied 13% of all U.S. electric power. It had 59 other companies beneath it, some of them stacked five deep. And on its back...
...defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another, a 26-year-old poet without a publisher: he wanted to see the world, including the flea circus in New York. "Fleas?" queried the judge, "we have them here." "Yes," replied the poet, "but these are trained...