Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Presidents in a week was too much for the U.S. State Department, especially when the last to emerge was such an old Hitler-lover as Arnulfo Arias. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller Jr., who had called on Chanis in the Presidencia only ten days earlier, frostily announced that...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture had a mournful announcement to make: DDT, the wonderful insecticide that debugged World War II, is losing its effect against mosquitoes.
The first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT...
The DOA fears that other mosquito species, including those that carry malaria and yellow fever, may adapt themselves too, as house flies in some places already have. But the department is not discouraged. Other powerful insecticides (e.g., the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride) can probably take over the job of...
When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in...