Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...
...with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...residue of DDT on general crops may have a bad effect on the nervous systems of both humans and farm animals. DDT is still regarded as too tricky for use on general crops...
...DDT is definitely poisonous to certain plants, e.g., squash, cucumbers and melons are killed or stunted by small doses. Tomatoes, corn, beans and rye are sometimes retarded...
...Housewives can battle most insects effectively and safely with 5% concentrations of DDT in kerosene sprays or water suspensions...