Word: ddt
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Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...
...DDT as a delousing agent against typhus has been an open secret for several months. But last week for the first time its manufacturers and Army, Agriculture and WPB officials joined in announcing some of its other amazing properties...
...view of the name of the building to which this letter is addressed, it's a bit amusing to see that DDT is a delousing powder whose real name is censored to TIME (March 6), but whose name was published by LIFE...
...suggest that the U.S. Army's new DDT delousing powder be applied liberally to relieve the "censorship itch" afflicting the person who deleted DDT's "real name...
...DDT. The U.S. Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an end to insect-borne diseases. Altogether, 1,300,000 people were dusted in Naples...