Word: lice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the faint scratching of gold pens in Paris last week an era closed-the era of Tiger Clemenceau who tried to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia and starve the Bolsheviks out as one would exterminate lice. Even last week deep French distrust of the Red masters of Moscow caused Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to receive more praise in Paris for his elaborate ringing of the League into the Pact than for the clauses with teeth which made Berlin shiver...
Such were some of the historic manifestations of the terrifying might of typhus which Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser, foremost U. S. authority on the disease, details in his Rats, Lice & History, published this week by Little, Brown & Co. Week before publication Dr. Zinsser sailed for France to lecture at the University of Paris...
When an attack of typhus is mild it probably is due to the bite of a rat-flea. In human blood rat-typhus virus may be transformed, by ways which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent form. Professor Zinsser two years ago invented a vaccine to prevent human typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Before that, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service invented a vaccine to protect humans against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...feeding, could be shipped long distances. But even when warmed up the ladybird beetle is too temperamental to breed in captivity, so that every one shipped has to be captured. Bogue has squads of men prowling the slopes, shaking the bugs from bushes into boxes. Other eaters of plant-lice he successfully breeds and sells, but the ladybird is his headliner. He ships to all agricultural states, refuses to disclose the names of his customers fearing competition and possible price-cutting. He estimates that a grower can police his land with Bogue ladybirds at a cost...