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...near public forest and park lands, CCC by 1938's end had planted 1,456,973,900 trees; put in 8,594,829 man-days at fire fighting & prevention; completed 102,004 miles of trails and roads; killed uncounted millions of prairie dogs, pocket gophers, jackrabbits, practiced "rodent control" on 30,774,000 infested acres; "re-vegetated" (grassed) 267,600 acres of grazing lands; built 41,960 bridges, 5,181 large dams, 3,612 towers and stations for fire lookouts, 68,990 miles of telephone line...
...immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic attraction was gone, and dog, woman, and students disappeared about their respective business...
Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
...chinchilla is a hopping rodent about ten inches long. It resembles a cross between a squirrel and a rabbit, with the squirrel's tail. Largest supply lives in Bolivia, Peru & Chile at altitudes between 12,000 and 19,000 feet. Chinchillas live gregariously in rocky burrows, eat leaves and nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound...
...foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the history of artistic phenomena. Besides Mr. Disney's delightful fantasies modestly called Silly Symphonies, replete with brilliant color, there is Mickey Mouse, man's only rodent friend...