Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behalf of all the people of the U.S.," a militant housewife named Carol Yannacone last week filed a federal court suit against five major manufacturers of DDT. Charging that the pesticide has gravely damaged the nation's natural resources, she claims that the companies have violated both antitrust laws and the citizenry's constitutional rights. Mrs. Yannacone, a Long Island conservationist, proposes a remarkable remedy. She seeks not only an injunction against further advertising of DDT without a warning but also the payment of $30 billion in reparations to local, state and federal governments. Whatever its fate...
Last week the ecoactivists staged a "Damn DDT Day" in San Francisco's Union Square. The movement has its own songs including a cutting eco-version of America the Beautiful. The lyrics...
...mixed blessings of DDT and civic sanitation have given the flea a bleak outlook for the downhill third of the 20th century. Lehane's future looks far more promising...
...tanker full of DDT were to be broken up in a storm tomorrow, the way so many oil tankers already have been, that DDT would be enough to slow the photosynthesizing micro-plants of the oceans. These plants produce ninety percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. In as much time as it took us to breath the remaining oxygen. It would all grind to a halt once...
...trying to mitigate the bad effects it has on our daily lives. We should not resist the idea that the world is going to end because that is going to happen and soon. But until it's over we should fight it- try to ban the bomb, CBW, DDT, and the SST- because the values of our existence are structured that...