Word: crayfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High concentrations of DDT used against forest pests kill fish indirectly, by killing aquatic insects. Crayfish and tadpoles, both important fish foods, can be killed by contact with DDT and by eating DDT-contaminated food...
Barrels & Records. A softspoken, brown-eyed little (5 ft. 9 in.) guy with a passive Southern accent and an active taste for Crayfish Bisque New Orleans style, Playing Manager Mel has long been a favorite of fans everywhere. More important than his batting records, he had something that made people like...
...scene was Toronto's Algonquin Park, heavily infested with budworm moths. City officials first gave the park a thorough DDT spraying by autogiro, then counted the survivors. Results: the deadly chemical killed not only the moths and other insects, but practically all invertebrates, especially crayfish; many minnows; some trout (those that ate poisoned insects); more than half of the snakes and frogs. It also damaged a few broad-leaved trees. But the census takers noted, with pleased surprise, that birds, chipmunks, mice, beaver and deer in the park were apparently unharmed...
...displays Author Heard in both guises. As H.F. he makes the flesh creep; as Gerald in disguise he makes the conscience crawl. A few of the stories are straight mysteries and scientific thrillers, in which the principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple of professors...