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This committee proposal is the latest of several anti-Communist bills introduced in the legislature this spring. Like the rest, it should be defeated, politics and publicity notwithstanding. Sinking a good ship never has been the best way to solve its rodent problem, however acceptable and fashionable that method may become...
...When the cat purrs, it's about to pounce." Not so! A cat never purrs when it is about to spring at a rodent. To do so would apprise the latter of its presence...
...agricultural show in Cornwall, King George VI halted before a stall marked "Infestation Division." "What's that name they call ratcatchers now?" asked the King. "Rodent operator, that's it! I suppose Whitehall thought that...
...since bubonic plague, the fearsome "Black Death" of the Middle Ages, reached the West Coast from China in 1900, U.S. health officials have waged ceaseless war against it. In the century's first quarter, the U.S. had 483 cases, 60% of them fatal. Then U.S. preventive measures (primarily rodent control) took effect: between 1925 and 1947 there were only 22 cases. Last week, for the first time in two years, two U.S. cases were identified, both in New Mexico...
...American appollation of wood-chuck is a corruption of the Indian name "wejak" or "weehak" influenced by the natural association of the rodent with the woods...