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Along the malarial marshes and through the tropical lowland jungle ride Venezuela's green-uniformed soldiers of health. From their gaudy yellow trucks they dismount at the doorways of palm-thatched huts to spray walls and dark corners with DDT-guns. In two years of spraying, the malaria fighters have cleared the mosquito from 200,000 houses and all but wiped out malaria in one-third of the nation...
...Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine produced a sturdy strain of houseflies that could survive doses of DDT big enough to scare a beetle. Flies of the 35th generation were as robust as ever after absorbing twice the amount of DDT it takes to kill a normal fly. A fit few were still buzzing after a triple dose. While the bureau saw no danger of a race of superflies, there was still a possibility that such a race might evolve. Lately the bureau...
...Call You Sweetheart. Author St. John traveled through Titoland with a "change of clothes ... a Boy Scout knife, six cans of DDT, a pencil sharpener, and a considerable quantity of paper." He also took along an interpreter-a Russian-born American girl whose "small, vibrant figure" quivered with eagerness "to answer . . . the riddles of the New Yugoslavia...
Atabrine & DDT. Soon UNESCO's scientists will go to Belém, at the Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose...
...Like Flies." In Salonika a top police officer told me: "If there has ever been a fertile breeding ground for Communism, it's among these refugees. Communist agents are swarming over them like flies and I don't know what we're going to use for DDT. If we can't feed them, house them, or give them any real hope, all they are going to have to live on this winter is Communist propaganda...