Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guarded communiqués reported four important breakthroughs on the tuberculosis front. Yet strategists and tacticians alike muffled their enthusiasm in public; the fight was not yet won; TB was still the No. 1 killer of U.S. citizens between...
...demonstrate the speed of his killer, Dr. Hurst released 1,000 houseflies in a room 15 by 15 ft., noted the wall spaces where most of them alighted, then painted the spots with his preparation. In 27 minutes every fly was dead...
Ever since DDT came out of the laboratory two years ago, chemists have been trying to improve on the "wonder killer." Last week a Britisher announced his entry: "Activated DDT," a concoction of pyrethrum...
...entomologists last week made a preliminary report on another sensational British insect killer, Gammexane, claimed to be five times as deadly as DDT (TIME, May 28, 1945). It has an unpleasant naphthalene smell, lacks DDT's lasting effect. It is particularly potent against cockroaches, proved effective in checking a locust plague in Sardinia this spring, and has shown promise against the cotton boll weevil. But in the sunny U.S. climate it has been generally less lethal than in foggy Britain...
...Canada last week came news of a startling scientific discovery: a treatment for heart disease (the nation's No. i killer) which so far has succeeded against all common forms of the ailment...