Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points to come good, and like a lot of Americans substituted during the whole war. Just where did the Tysons secure the "sizzling rare cuts" so amply provided at this hour of the rationing program? Perhaps the most beneficial expense of this ridiculous show was the test of DDT, which suggests to the rest of us bourgeoisie that if we keep plugging, at least we won't have to swat flys any more...
...self-congratulatory advertisements last week, Gimbel's Department Store in Manhattan announced a sale of Army DDT sprayers good for murdering anything from spiders to tsetse-flies. Modell's Sporting Goods Stores advertised Army sleeping bags ("warm as toast") for $5.95. From warehouses all over the U.S., $600,000,000 worth of war-hoarded Government goods were on their way to civilian stores. And these would be just a drop out of the enormous bucket...
...DDT (for insects), 2-4-0 (for weeds) and the atomic bomb (for people), science has added another great killer: "1080 (for rats), triumphantly announced in Science last week by the U.S. Wildlife Research Laboratory...
...Winnebago County, Illinois, which includes Rockford (pop. 84,637). The city, which has had 163 cases and 19 deaths, waited last week to find out whether a spraying with DDT (TIME, Aug. 27), does any good. New cases fell off a little...
...Jersey (pop. 4,160,165) with 519 cases and 43 deaths. To control the disease, Trenton and nearby towns have quarantined their children from school, church, swimming pools, movies. Paterson has been sprayed with DDT. The State Director of Health says carefully that New Jersey has no epidemic, but has proclaimed a "state of emergency" and asked the Red Cross for nurses, quick...