Word: arnoldo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the musty halls of Caracas' Central University, 39-year-old Arnoldo Gabaldón rose to receive a nation's thanks. Flanked by six cabinet ministers, Gabaldón told of what had been done. "We are now able to dominate this great plague of the nation," he said. "In all probability we will be the first tropical country to defeat the disease...
...campaign got started almost by chance. In the spring of 1945, Venezuela's chief malaria expert, young Arnoldo Gabaldon, was in Washington for a Pan-American health conference. At lunch one day, Dr. James Stevens (now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) told him what DDT was doing for the Army in the southwest Pacific. Gabaldon was "terribly excited...