Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Gustave Meyer, 68, self-styled "American scientific astrologer - counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...
Some little bug is going to find you some...
...biggest human setback has been loss of pyrethrum, far & away the deadliest prewar insecticide, of which almost the entire supply came from Japan. The substitutes on which bug fighters now chiefly rely are the new Lethanes (not so deadly) and sodium fluoride (dangerous because poisonous to man). One of the most effective exterminators is ultra-deadly hydrocyanic gas, but against it there is a city ordinance...
...dies at 23°. It is also very susceptible, when it can be reached, to poison. In Manhattan the most common varieties of roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes, at the time the Croton Dam was built for a civic water supply. In spite of its appetite, the cock roach's chief danger to man is not destructiveness but food contamination...
...feeds on human blood. A loathsome, wingless insect, it is light brown and flat before feeding, swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...