Word: fungal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, White served in tropical countries and made surveys of fungal deterioration of Army material. At present, he is supervising Army research aimed at preventing fungus damage to clothing and food...
...vigorous group of non-green plants-the fungi. For ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...