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They were already making attempts to reclaim their soil. On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
This report confirms a belief doctors have had ever since the discovery three years ago that pigeons (40% of them in some areas) and many other fowl (sometimes even ordinary hens) carry a virus similar to that of psittacosis, the much dreaded parrot disease. Both viruses produce a virus pneumonia, but the parrot virus is much more dangerous, usually killing about 18% of its victims. Both behave so much alike that medical men now refer to all bird-borne virus pneumonias as ornithosis, and call both viruses "members of the psittacosis group...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
...Fowl Fine. In Brooklyn, Joseph Asaro ate his sixth chicken in one day, had six more to go in 13 days to finish off his sentence for violating the sanitary law by keeping chickens in his house...
...Army's Adjutant General, Major General James A. Ulio, ruled, following protests, that Chips could keep his medals but no more medals would be allowed to dogs. Solemnly the War Department warned its troop commanders: "If it is desired to recognize the outstanding services of an animal or fowl, appropriate citation may be published in unit general orders...