Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is bigger and meaner. Sometimes brown rats massacre black rats, but more commonly they interbreed, blending the species into an intermediate type. The U.S., which has both kinds (and others too), is a melting pot for rats...
...movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers. A documentary firm run by Actor Eddie (Brother Rat) Albert...
Questions about such sore snots as Greece and China were handled neatly. The audience was amiable and the only real seething followed his attack on U.S. support of the UN Palestine partition plan. He prefaced his denunciation with the remark that he's smelled a rat when the Russians agreed with...
...Manhattan, Robert L. Kendall, president of the American Feline Society, proposed shipping 50,000 surplus U.S. cats to Europe to guard Marshall Plan food stocks from rat attack. Under the Kendall Plan, only "healthy and vigorous work cats" would be inducted; all would become "government wards." Cried Sydney H. Coleman, executive vice-president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: "The cats could not exist on rodents. . . . They would need supplementary feeding which people in these countries could not give. . . . We are vigorously opposed...
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...