Word: tick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumor had it (and the chiefly interested party-John Hertz-refused to make denial), that the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. - makers of the vivid yellow things that flit the streets of the nation's cities as their meters tick off fares-was to be merged with the General Motors Corp...
...Tick went the telegraph wires ; came a message from Governor Walker of Georgia to Judge Bynum, counsel for the Memorial Association. "See," the Governor requested the Association, "that requisition papers are withdrawn." Thereupon Governor McLean of North Carolina telegraphed Governor Walker congratulating him upon the "wisdom and patriotism" displayed by his request. President Randolph and his committee held counsel, withdrew the requisition papers, adding, with arrogant explicitness, that they wished "to give notice that the withdrawal of this application for extradition does not in any way mean that there is the remotest possibility of Borglum ever resuming work on this...
...Authorized an investigation (which was immediately undertaken) to discover "diploma mills" and "fraudulently made" physicians. ¶ Passed a bill appropriating 251,000 to reimburse Texas cattlemen for the loss of 4,300 tick-infested steers "negligently dipped" by the Department of Agriculture...
...Bureau of Animal Industry, a subdivision of the Department of Agriculture, provides cattle dipping vats in regions which are infested with what is known as the "fever-tick." To prevent spread of the disease cattle-raisers are required to "dip" their stock. The penalty for failure to do so is arrest and a fine. In parts of the South cattlemen object to this regulation. Rounding up cattle to have them dipped is a nuisance. The stockmen also claim that some of their cattle are injured by plunging through the vats and others by swallowing the disinfectant...
Total immersion for the fever-tick...