Word: cockroach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cockroach DDTs...
Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...
Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
...Shame on you to flaunt a cockroach before a Navy couple who dream of home in New Jersey, and cleanliness. Don't you know the Southern variety would sneer at your tiny Powers model...
Back in the safer precincts of his native Manhattan, Customer McDermott told friends he had been attacked by a flying cockroach, two inches long, with scaly brown wings and hairy legs. They scoffed. "All right, so it didn't fly," said brooding Mike McDermott. "Then it sure jumped a hell of a long ways...