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...diner-out who elbows his way to a restaurant chair in Washington has learned to eat his food either 1) in optimistic haste, or 2) with queasy care. Reason: the insect world and slovenly workers are fighting a winning battle against laxly enforced sanitation laws and overworked health inspectors...
...Georgia air base a harassed captain sat down and wrote this note: "To: Medical Supply Officer: "1) Following telephone information from your office that you were unable to issue carbon disulphide for use in this office in ant control, and following receipt of your letter listing insect repellents furnished by your office, request was made of Quartermaster for carbon disulphide for use by this office in ant control. We were informed by Quartermaster that they could only issue such preparation if the ant to be exterminated was in the building. If it was outside the building, the issuance of such...
Skol made a hit in the U.S. too, and Gallowhur began to look for something else. Soon he found 1) a new formula for protecting fabrics from mildew, fungus, etc., developed by a young Oregon chemist named Frank Sowa, 2) an insect-repelling chemical developed by U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. He named the first "Puratized Process," the second "Skat." Both products automatically became strategic when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor...
...expedition has the best of scientific experts and equipment. Two-way radios will keep it in touch with the world. To record and report are geographers, botanists, mining engineers, meteorologists, agriculturists, physicians, photographers, a news reporter. To combat pestilence, the doctors will take 70,000 pills, anesthetics, analgesics, insect and snakebite remedies, and parasite exterminators...
...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...