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...Government gold in Manhattan, sabotage and then commandeer public utilities, set up a U. S. dictatorship. For practicing their plot, the 18 central characters had a rifle range. For the national affiliations necessary to their plan, they had connections with one of the several anti-Semitic "Christian Fronts" which infest the U. S. and particularly New York City (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: G-Whiz | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Precipitous drops in the U. S. pecan harvest are nothing new but growers do not agree on reasons. Some say that nut pests thrive so well on a good crop that they appear in legions to infest the next one. Some say that rain did not fall at the right time, others that "pecan trees are just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nutting Time | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Last week two learned pharmacologists bickered politely over intestinal worms. The roundworm, which resembles the earthworm in form, is the most common parasite which infests the intestines of human beings. Children between the ages of three and ten are especially good hosts for these worms. Male roundworms grow four to eight inches long, females seven to twelve inches. In some cases as many as 1,000 have been found, but usually only half a dozen roundworms infest an intestine. They live on blood drained from the intestinal wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earthworms, Roundworms | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Cyclists of both sexes now infest British roads to such a point that politicians talk seriously of having to win "the cyclist vote." Aristocratic motorists are often heard to swear jestingly that they would like to do to cyclists some of the things Mortimer surprised and shocked the Empire by doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death to Mortimer | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...Independence, said that if they did not all hang together they would all hang separately. If the major industries of this country do not hang together, if they do not openly call their stockholders and employes to the colors in a 1935 declaration of independence, the radicals that now infest the executive and legislative departments of our Government will joyously hang them all separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Let's Gang Up! | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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