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...plus one, the Zoological Society's council, which runs the Regent's Park Zoo, decided to build a new elephant house, put the parrots on its upper floor, move the insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...
...owes its deadliness partly to an almost unique property: on insects it acts as both a contact and stomach poison. It first paralyzes an insect's hind legs, then gives it a violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...
...Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an end to insect-borne diseases. Altogether, 1,300,000 people were dusted in Naples...
...Green Bay, off northern Michigan, where smelts grew thickest, fishermen caught them through holes in the ice in winter, dipped them out of streams with nets when they swam upstream to spawn in spring. A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them...
...When a Biblical plague of locusts swept the food lands of the Middle East in 1942, threatening disaster to General Montgomery's drive against Rommel, Lend-Lease rushed planes, technicians and insecticides to the scene. They gave the area its first lesson in scientific insect control, and saved the larder of the Eighth Army. >When Axis propaganda implied that Polish and Yugoslav prisoners of the Axis had been forgotten by the United Nations while British and American prisoners received food packets monthly, Lend-Lease acted. It now supplies 56,000 Polish and 140,000 Yugoslav prisoners with an eleven...