Word: rodent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originator and so far as the world knows the sole creator of Mickey Mouse's doings. Eleven years ago he was working on the Kansas City Star, drifted to Hollywood where he produced pictures combining people and cartoons. When the sound device was invented he originated his famed rodent, devising a method to make the Mickey Mouse musical scores synchronize perfectly with the action. It takes from 6,000 to 7,000 drawings to make one reel (650-750 ft.) of Mickey Mouse film. Walter Disney pro duces 26 films a year, 13 Mickey Mouse cartoons, 13 Silly Symphonies...
...ExperimentaI cancer in rats and mice is quite different from cancer in humans. Agents which will cure, or apparently cure, rodent cancer, will not necessarily affect human cancer. But from observation of rodent reactions, pathologists hope to get clues to human reactions...
...bought up some 300 dry oil wells, claimed a capitalization of $380,000,000, sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing 20,000 bbl. per day, the U. S. at his trial showed that from...