Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-tailored, tart-tongued, and an accomplished crapshooter, Fitz was born in Superior, Wis., attended the Art Institute of Chicago, warmed up with some front-page cartoons for the Chicago Daily News, and was hired by the P-D in 1913 at 22. Fitz devised dingy Rat Alley as a cartoonland home for the criminal and corrupt, and his victims squirmed to find themselves there. Wailed one Missouri politician to a P-D staffer: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you do with that guy who draws cartoons?" Says Fitz: "I've made an awful...
...York: "It's a rat race, but we love it-we never had it so good. You can keep the tranquilizers-the magnum of champagne...
...which had been killing cattle. It is still widely used for long-term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats keep on eating it, eventually die of internal bleeding. In the U.S., said Link last week, 70,000 tons of warfarin-poisoned bait have been used without a single human death and with few accidents...
Best Testimonial. Physicians who had no objection to using a drug made from rotted clover that killed cattle were more wary of one touted as a rat poison. But warfarin, believes Chemist Link, is the best anticoagulant now available: it can be used in smaller doses than dicoumarin; it can be given by mouth, by injection or rectally. It works fairly rapidly, and an overdose can be promptly canceled with a form of vitamin K. Best testimonial to its safety: Chemist Link disclosed that warfarin is the anticoagulant (unnamed by Press Secretary James Hagerty) that President Eisenhower has been taking...
Plague is caused by a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, whose natural habitat is the rat. Fleas carry it from rats to humans. The disease, called bubonic when it affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic when it attacks the lungs, used to be 90% fatal; nowadays antibiotics and sulfa drugs can defeat it in 90% of cases, and widespread warfare against rats and fleas in underprivileged areas helps prevent outbreaks...