Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town. It has dial phones, running water, sewers, electricity. Mobile DDT sprayers roam over the islands. Malaria has been wiped out, trachoma is disappearing. There are schools and hospitals, and one of the few insane asylums in the whole Arab world...
...Devoe & Raynolds' white wall and ceiling paint, which contains DDT, will kill insects, be effective for as long as five years...
...play golf, quit on the first hole, came back slapping at his legs, arms and neck. There was a run on the dispensary's supply of insect repellent. Then the word went out from the Little White House, and Navy fighters whipped low over the area to spray DDT from their belly tanks. Truman, who has often commented that he is thick-skinned, said the mosquitoes weren't bothering him at all. Despite all the excitement, there were some who seemed slow to realize that Harry Truman was in town. A letter addressed to him was delivered late...
...chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that chemists have synthesized...
Notable is a notorious den on Upper Plympton Street, where a CRIMSON photographer, disguised as a opium smoker with a camera hidden in his pigtail, snapped this picture. Police threaten to resort to DDT bombs unless the nest of uncleanligodliness is cleaned up by the end of the week...