Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ticks and Prejudice. As a young BAI inspector in the early 1900s, John Mohler set out to rid the U.S. of cattle tick fever...
...work "in spite of many obstacles." Yet in his 46 years with BAI, John Mohler had" become the archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague livestock-bovine tuberculosis, foot-& -mouth disease, cattle tick fever and Bang's disease. So doing he had helped raise the whole standard of health...
...great U.S. foot-&-mouth epidemics, in 1914 and 1924, made John Mohler a hated man among many U.S. farmers. A man of stubborn faith, he argued that the only way to get rid of an epidemic is to stamp it out. When farmers came to hear his case, he first made them bathe their feet in disinfectant. His doctor's tools were trench-digging machines and rifles, crowbars and pickaxes, vats of formaldehyde and carloads of quicklime. His white-suited crews moved across the country, singling out the infected herds. Wherever there was a cow with ropy spittle, dollar...
...Phillies under Harris-his first year-had already won 39 games, had won only 42 all last year). Sour rumor said that Brooklyn's Branch Rickey was really running Philadelphia's Bill Cox, that Rickey was lining up Bucky Harris against a day when Rickey could get rid of Brooklyn's noisy manager Leo Durocher...
...Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...