Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atabrine & DDT. Soon UNESCO's scientists will go to Belém, at the Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose...
...Like Flies." In Salonika a top police officer told me: "If there has ever been a fertile breeding ground for Communism, it's among these refugees. Communist agents are swarming over them like flies and I don't know what we're going to use for DDT. If we can't feed them, house them, or give them any real hope, all they are going to have to live on this winter is Communist propaganda...
...protect her crowded population. So they are going after the flies, busy spreaders of cholera, which swarm over Egypt in uncountable billions, as they did in the time of Moses. U.S. Pilot Bob Holt, hired by the Egyptian Government for antimalaria spraying, covers Cario daily with a fog of DDT. The flies of Egypt are specially tough, but the DDT is getting them down...
...polio is spread is still the No. 1 puzzle. Because the polio virus is found in large amounts in the digestive tract, investigators now think that its chief invasion route is the mouth, probably in contaminated food. Flies are known to carry the virus. But dusting cities with DDT does not seem to stop epidemics...
Temperance. In Mexico City, José Reinaldo, charged with drunkenness, assured the cops that he had had nothing but a few snorts of orange juice spiked with a little DDT...