Word: lice
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...Lice & Rice. Abdullah's military adviser, the man on whom the British most count to keep their useful Arab ally efficient but tractable, was also in London last week-Major General* John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), M.C., D.S.O., Order of El-Istiqlal (Independence), Order of El-Nahdhah (Renaissance...
...poison the bugs that bite them. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture was hard at work on this project. Many modern insecticides have only a slight effect on warm-blooded creatures. An animal whose blood is spiced with some such deadly substance should make an unattractive meal for lice, ticks or mosquitoes...
...most successful experiments were with human body lice, which normally live on human blood. When work began at Agriculture's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., the lice were kept thriving on their favorite food. Hired human hosts lay face down on cots, their backs covered with lice (one young woman was able to put herself through college as this kind of hostess). Dr. E. F. Knipling finally did these people out of a job by breeding lice which could live on special rabbits...
Then he fed all sorts of insecticides to the rabbits. Some killed the lice, but also killed the lousy rabbits. At last he found a compound (2-pivalyl-I, 3-indandione) which had no apparent effect on the rabbit, but killed all lice that took a single nip. Dose required: 2.5 milligrams (.00006 oz.) per kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of rabbit weight. One-tenth of a milligram fed daily for three weeks was deadly to lice for a month after the dosing stopped. A similar campaign against mosquitoes was not quite so effective. At Kerrville, Tex., an offensive against cattle ticks...
...ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies of their dead comrades and, if not too disgusted by the lice, ate their kidneys and livers and the soft parts of their thighs...