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...Bailey wanted more. His first attempt to get compulsory health insurance failed because students balked at Stillman's lack of facilities for contagious cases. During the 19th century the only place a man with measles could go was a dank "pest-house" on Soldiers Field. After this went out of business, people with communicable diseases had to pay the exhorbitant prices of local hospitals or endanger their dorm-mates by staying in their rooms...
From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, "the most threatening insect pest of American cotton," is doing more damage "to the 1952 cotton crop . . . than its total damage in the last 35 years." Jolted by the news, cotton traders in New York and elsewhere began buying heavily, quickly pushed cotton futures up as much as $2.50 a bale. But when newsmen tried to get some more facts on the crop damage a few hours later, faces at the Agriculture Department were as pink as a bollworm. There are no figures, said Agriculture officials...
...always centered around government payrolls. The son of a naval man, he went through grade school and a year at Commerce High in New York City before he had to quit and take a job. The New Deal was beginning to flower then, and Amolsch signed up as a pest control officer for the Department of Agriculture. When he tired of that he joined a surveying team with the Department of the Interior. In 1938 he returned to New York and on the 21st of August enlisted in the Army for the first time...
...business in 1934, Auerbach had fled the country, but in 1940 the Vichy French turned him over to the Gestapo. Auerbach was sent from one concentration camp to another, finally to Buchenwald. His school knowledge of chemistry saved him from the gas chambers: he became the prison pest exterminator. The prisoners called him Herr Doktor. He survived, but the Nazis killed 21 of his relatives...
...George Muldowney. In his rough-cut way, Dennis tried to make her job a little pleasanter. When at last she quit after refusing to clean out the passengers' lavatories, Dennis followed her to London, where he hung around her like a stray dog. In time he became a pest. Christine complained to the police...