Word: tickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with his tools. Working with intense concentration, he can rarely tune more than three or four pianos a day. Despite their calm, it is not surprising that piano tuners sometimes have nervous breakdowns...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...
...Service has developed a vaccine for prevention and a serum for treatment (TIME, June 30, 1941), which cuts the death rate to a little less than 4%. Since all vaccine is reserved for people who must work in heavily infected woods, the Public Health Service advises others to de-tick themselves every few hours by using tweezers or paper to pick the ticks off-thus keeping the germs (if any) off the hands. The Army's Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk reports that sulfur dusted into shoes and clothes will keep the ticks away...