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...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
Health authorities, faced with demands to "DO something," have outdone previous efforts to exorcise the disease. Latest efforts: dusting cities with DDT from planes, draining of swamps and pools, street cleanups...
...yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
Unless you want to find yourself with nothing to say as that post-game cocktail party, throw away your Reader's Digest, dab your ear-lobes with DDT and get over to the Laffmovie to catch the latest in Marxist doctrine...
...lumpy around the face and head, he is doomed to blindness unless the cysts are cut away before the threadworms reach the eyes. Even when the cysts are removed, the victim may become reinfected; for doctors doubt that the gnats, which spread the parasites, can be exterminated-even with DDT...