Word: funguses
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...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
...even a name; now its 500 Seattle employes turn out one prefabricated wooden igloo every 15 minutes for U.S. troops in Alaska, and its gross volume runs up to $6,000,000 a year. The 4½-ton Pacific huts are rainproof, stormproof, termite-proof, fungus-proof, even proof against cold...
When burns slowly developed on the men's fingers in the next few weeks, a shipyard doctor told the men they had "fungus growths." When they began to lose fingers and suffer dreadful pain, the leprosy rumor started...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
...carried advertising, but not for revenue only. The revenue, in fact, was so much fungus. Every centime which The Stars and Stripes took in -and it took in 50 of them per copy, one dime American -vanished eventually into the unheeding maw of the United States Treasury. We carried advertising solely in order that The Stars and Stripes would look like what it was -a newspaper...