Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless you want to find yourself with nothing to say as that post-game cocktail party, throw away your Reader's Digest, dab your ear-lobes with DDT and get over to the Laffmovie to catch the latest in Marxist doctrine...
...lumpy around the face and head, he is doomed to blindness unless the cysts are cut away before the threadworms reach the eyes. Even when the cysts are removed, the victim may become reinfected; for doctors doubt that the gnats, which spread the parasites, can be exterminated-even with DDT...
...fruit trees: Don't use. Because DDT is a cumulative poison and apparently injures some plants, it is unsafe to use on most fruits and vegetables until further tests have been made...
...grain bins and warehouses: Spray walls and woodwork with 5% DDT in kerosene. Don't get it on the grain; treat bins when empty...
...Department of Agriculture added a reassuring word: the danger of handling DDT has been greatly exaggerated. It is less toxic than other insecticides (arsenate of lead, nicotine), in two years has not injured any of the thousands of workers who have handled it constantly...