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...Amazing is the chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Work | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...body. To prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal cleanliness. Their next chore, upon which they are already started: to derat, deflea, deplague Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bubonic Plague | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...moviegoers. As far as we personally are concerned there is atmosphere aplenty in the opus itself. After one has approached the deserted fort across a distinctly realistic movie desert, one is supplied with plenty of local color, French Foreign Legion social ethics, North Beery brutality and much besides which deflea enumeration...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: "BEAU GESTE" COMES TO THE FOOTHILLS | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

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