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...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
...jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural gas, the plant each year will pour out 20% of the nation's supply of synthetic alcohol, used in hundreds of products ranging from synthetic rubber and explosives to photographic film and DDT; 200 million lbs. of ethylene; 50 million Ibs. of ethyl chloride, for tetraethyl lead in high-octane aviation gasoline; 140,000 tons of sulphuric acid. In addition, Tuscola will soon have a $7,000,000 ammonia plant and a $14.5 million plant for producing polyethylene, the tough, flexible plastic that...
After his release from a Communist prison camp in Korea last week, a thin, boyish-looking Nisei soldier from Gallup, N.Mex. went through Freedom Village's routine processing: a puff of DDT powder, a quick physical examination and a cup of ice cream. Then, to his astonishment, Sergeant Hiroshi H. Miyamura, 27, was pulled out of line and led to a rosette of microphones in the press area. While cameras whirred, Brigadier General Ralph Osborne, commanding officer of Freedom Village, made an announcement. "I want to take this occasion to welcome the greatest VIP, the most distinguished guest...
...Indian government took extraordinary precautions to protect the pilgrims. All of them had to receive anti-cholera inoculations and, despite the objections of the sanyasis, the area around Gomateswara's hill was sprayed with DDT, killing multitudes of living things in the process. Amidst the pious shouts of pilgrims, a public-address system warned: "Beware of pickpockets...
...petrochemicals, may some day have as much as half of the company's assets in the industry. But Grace has no intention of stopping all expansion in South America. Last week he was putting the finishing touches on another one of his pet projects: a $5,000,000 DDT plant which the company will soon build, probably in Brazil...