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...view of the name of the building to which this letter is addressed, it's a bit amusing to see that DDT is a delousing powder whose real name is censored to TIME (March 6), but whose name was published by LIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Of Pullmans and Beaux | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...suggest that the U.S. Army's new DDT delousing powder be applied liberally to relieve the "censorship itch" afflicting the person who deleted DDT's "real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Of Pullmans and Beaux | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...DDT. The U.S. Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an end to insect-borne diseases. Altogether, 1,300,000 people were dusted in Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meeting in Algiers | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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