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...extraordinary new insecticide DDT is not without drawbacks. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service issued a warning (confirming some previous reports-TIME, June 12) that DDT may be toxic to people and animals as well as insects...
...laboratory animals in small doses, DDT produced poisoning symptoms like those from carbolic acid. It excited the animals' central nervous system, gave them the shivers, paralyzed their feet, finally killed some of them. The poison was cumulative...
...DDT, the wonder insecticide (TIME, June 12), was last week credited with the most crushing blitz of its career...
Three months ago Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture decided to try the deadly chemical on the gypsy-moth cater pillar, one of the worst tree-stripping pests in eastern U.S. forests. From an airplane, entomologists sprayed five pounds of DDT per acre over 20 acres of timberland near Scranton...
...that all. Entomologists who went hunting in the blitzed acres found that the DDT spray had also wiped out the entire population of leaf-eating insects, black flies and mosquitoes...