Word: parrott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindesay Parrott interviewed Takao Takatogawa in Tokyo: "His Government ration . . . consists only of rice, sweet potatoes and seaweed. . . . Because charcoal costs $4 a sack (half a month's rent), his wife and daughter have to go out into the country and pick up sticks to burn. . . . 'The next winter is more worrisome to me [than the next war],' he says...
...Laboratory Assistant Rose Parrott, the Institute's first woman worker, died of tularemia (rabbit fever) last autumn, ten days after she was to have been retired after 30 years' service. She had not even entered the room where tularemia work was done. (Most tularemia workers get it sooner or later...
...deaths of Dr. Henderson and Rose Parrott, within six weeks of each other, had spurred Congress into appropriating the money. The lab will be divided into six isolated sections, each devoted to a single type of disease (e.g., tularemia, scrub typhus, influenza, fungus infections). Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals...
...Skinny Wainwright's mother's side stood Grandfather Edward Serrell, who devised the "Swamp Angel"-the great 8-in. Parrott gun which was skidded across swamps, set upon piling and used to hurl 200-lb. shells into the heart of Charleston...
Died. Dr. John E. Osborne, 84, onetime governor of Wyoming (1893-95) ; in Rawlins, Wyo. He once had a pair of shoes fashioned from the hide of George "Big Nose") Parrott, posse-lynched desperado...