Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a civilian would give red points to get his hands on a little DDT, the Army's high-priority insecticide. Recently citizens of Media and Swarthmore, Philadelphia suburbs, were astonished: two of the towns' hardware stores offered bottles of DDT for sale across the open counter. The...
Stored all over England are thousands & thousands (the exact figures are a military secret) of deadly 500-lb. gas bombs. For anything but killing, the gas is useless. Some of it is so lethal that it kills in 30 seconds; nurses must stand ready with first aid near the workers...
In the sixth inning Wallace decided to make the game more even by handing out a run free of charge. He walked the first batter, Tom Barrett, then picked up Duke Duzukola's easy grounder and spoiled a double killing by heaving the pellet to Carlton in centerfield, Barrett and...
This spectacular show was staged last week to demonstrate one of the most promising methods yet found for applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine...
But for G.I.s, war is no sporting experience. As Pyle says, "killing is a rough business," and for the most part "the G.I. dies so miserably!" What makes G.I. Joe an unusual picture is its unsparing reconstruction of a soldier's wretched little realities. Beginning with Company C'...