Word: insects
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...professional exterminators who work in New York City last week generally felt that they were barely holding their own against the insect world. The verminous swarm which always threatens mankind has made great wartime gains due to shortages of insecticide and manpower and to heavy wartime travel (especially of insects aboard furloughed servicemen...
Manhattan harbors every known species of urban insect-and many of their country cousins. The battle against them costs $5,000,000 a year in labor alone, many millions more for weapons. Three-quarters of the city's business buildings and apartment houses are constantly sprayed and fumigated...
...dozen bugs that give New Yorkers the most trouble, the termite and the brown dog tick are among the most menacing-their population is growing rapidly. But even in modern, skyscraping Manhattan, man's worst insect enemies are still the ancient, hardy foes against which he has waged long and barely equal warfare-the cockroach, bedbug, ant, moth, silverfish...
...dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books, its own cast-off skin...
This is a typical "commercial" on the Mosquito Network, a South Pacific branch of the Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Army doctors hope that the plug for Toujours Gai will lead G.I.s to use' their insect repellent, which not only smells bad but is also considered sissified by many fighting...