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...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
Teddy set up shop in a bamboo-and-mud hut next to the Press Hostel's kitchens (he says it had the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down last year), but he spent much of his time getting out to see for himself what was going on. For example, he was the first white man in 15 years to go into parts of Shansi province and come back alive. To get there he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...
...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...
...elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views on U.S. intervention: the confused statements and blank, well-meaning faces have a shock value that is startling...