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...Last week, Drs. W. T. Sumerford and Eugene P. Odum of the University of Georgia reported on DPE, a DDT relative with fewer chlorine atoms in its molecule. Sprayed on water, it kills the unwanted mosquito larvae without killing fish...
...organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer was at hand...
...motorboats and tree-shaded lanes had already used up lipstick by the bucket. Baseball was wonderful again and dance bands were improving-grandstands and pavilions were crowded. Summer stock and borsch circuit vaudeville were splashed with big names. If the fishing was not the best in history, a million mosquito-bitten men would never admit...
...sweated out a tropical assignment, there was a certain irony in the news: the Army had at last found a vaccine to combat dengue* fever, which had plagued 84,000 troops during the war years with rashes, headaches, fever and racking joint pains. Although nonfatal, the mosquito-borne disease lasted anywhere from two to 15 days; worst of all, there was no specific treatment...
...pink Socialist eye, talked about 24-hour service from London to rival Pan American's projected one-day Constellation schedule from New York to Buenos Aires. Last week, B.S.A.A.'s glamor boy and general manager, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, was reported souping up a Mosquito in London to show that it could be done...