Word: tickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranch and in the town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit from a rough, rich Texas cattleman, who sounded as though he might fit Lost Cabin...
From the British Ministry of Agriculture last week came news of an insecticide which may be as good as famed DDT, and perhaps better. Known in wartime code as "666," it is a simple chemical: hexa-chloro-benzene. In tests on parasitic mites and ticks (Acorida) it proved much more effective than DDT. On mangy rats infested with itch mites it worked a complete cure and, unlike DDT, proved entirely harmless to the animals. It may be the answer to scabies in animals and man, and to many tick-borne diseases...
...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...