Word: miiller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation from his superiors in Zurich. Whenever bank auditors visited the Chiasso branch, the books that recorded Kuhrmeier's Texon dealings and other incriminating papers were spirited through a private doorway into a collaborating law firm next door. Crédit Suisse's Chiasso branch, says Bernhard Miiller, director of the Swiss Banking Commission, "was a bank within a bank...
...single most significant development in insect control was the discovery of a compound with the unpronounceable name of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or, as it came to be known, DDT. First synthesized in 1874, the chemical languished in the laboratory until 1939, when Chemist Paul Miiller of Switzerland's J.R. Geigy chemical company discovered its insecticidal properties. The U.S. Army considered the chemical so effective that it classified it "top secret," and first used it against a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943. It worked so well that the military promptly began applying DDT against a wide variety of insects responsible...