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...Stokes, 46, one of the nation's shrewdest, most diligent and forthright political reporters, started work under Clapper at United News ("sort of the night side of the U.P.") in Washington in 1923. He says, "I really learned whatever I know about politics and what makes it tick from...
...only prevention is to cut down or burn off the kunai grass and wear tick-tight clothing smeared with insect repellent. The only treatment is good nursing care which, in one epidemic, cut deaths to 2%. In the same issue of the Bulletin, Captain Joseph Bruce Logue reported on an epidemic of 230 cases with 22 deaths. In his opinion, none of these tsutsugamushi patients were fit to stay in the combat zone, even after several weeks of light duty. He suspects that all have permanent heart damage...
Rockets and Planes. Through glasses we can see every detail of Red Beach. A line of LCLs has now moved up nearer, to deliver rocket fire. As the minutes tick by, the warship barrage is rising to a steady drumming. The concussions are uncomfortable. A very young, very redheaded ensign staring at the beach mutters: "If I was a Jap in there and I wasn't scared, I'd get scared...
...first Hellcat was built in August 1942. Five months later, the production line began to tick them off. This was unheard-of speed in an industry which used to need years to translate blueprints into planes. When a Navy brass hat dropped in to tell Grumman that he should expand to take care of Hellcat production, Swirbul pulled a mess of blue prints from his desk, said: "We are." When the officer said he would rush priorities for steel, Swirbul said: "I've got steel." And he had it, from Manhattan's razed Second Avenue elevated railway...
...dozen bugs that give New Yorkers the most trouble, the termite and the brown dog tick are among the most menacing-their population is growing rapidly. But even in modern, skyscraping Manhattan, man's worst insect enemies are still the ancient, hardy foes against which he has waged long and barely equal warfare-the cockroach, bedbug, ant, moth, silverfish...