Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President signed the Navy Expansion Bill-authorizing a $1,156,000,000, 20% increase of 46 warships, 26 auxiliaries and 950 planes-asked Congress to appropriate $23,875,000 to begin construction on a dirigible, twelve new boats, a "mosquito fleet," improvements in three Navy yards, and to purchase nine four-engine patrol planes...
...Stegomyia) aegypti, the yellow-fever mosquito. Its heroes are the men who braved mosquito bite to find an effective yellow-fever cure...
...Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor (Henry Hull) who died and the five volunteers who risked their lives to test the Finlay theory...
Besides these events to view with alarm, Messrs. Rockefeller, Fosdick and their fellow trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...this was very important news to wildlife conservationists, 2.000 of whom-trout fishermen, farmers, Camp Fire Girls, scientists, sentimentalists-gathered in Baltimore last week for the third North American Wildlife Conference, welcomed news of the Des Plaines Valley experiment. Mosquito control was the subject of the conference's bitterest debate. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of Eastern and Southern States, which end-to-end would belt the world almost 2½ times, have dried away vegetation, starved wildlife. Said Audubon Societies' William Vogt: "Intelligently conceived, expertly prosecuted, adequately maintained, and completely justified mosquito control is as rare...