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...placard placed over the Gemini hatches by back-up Astronauts Jim Lovell and Ed Aldrin, they read...
Common Death. The Mississippi fishkill is still a live subject in Washington, but Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman announced: "None of the evidence presented was scientifically adequate, in the judgment of the department, to justify withdrawal of endrin, aldrin or dieldrin from farm...
...eastward from the dead refinery town of Abadan along the shore of the Persian Gulf. As he skimmed five feet above fields crawling with dark brown insects, the 24 nozzles attached to the tanks slung under the plane's wings sprayed down death. The tanks were filled with Aldrin, a powerful new U.S. insecticide that kills locusts but is harmless to crops and cattle. Other Americans flew on similar missions in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, in a Point Four campaign that is costing the U..S. half a million dollars but has won a gratitude that money cannot usually...
After two months of battling a locust plague in Iran with a task force of eight airplanes, nine pilots, a technical adviser and ten tons of a new insecticide called "Aldrin," the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported last week that the Point Four funds had been well spent. Among the 50,000 infested acres that were saved from destruction: part of Iran's poppy fields, a prime source of heroin...