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...instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling to kill even a mosquito...
Besides atabrine, the Army's "malaria discipline" includes screens, rolled-down sleeves, tucked-in trousers, mosquito repellents, puddle and swamp drainage...
Among the horrors of war in the South Pacific is filariasis (rhymes with diocese), a mosquito-borne, hitherto incurable disease. It sometimes develops into elephantiasis, particularly of the scrotum. The number of military cases runs into the hundreds, mostly jungle-fighting marines who have been evacuated to U.S. hospitals. The Navy has described filariasis as the "hardest single thing" facing its doctors. But last week the Journal of the American Medical Association announced a drug which attacks the parasites causing the disease...
...TIME (July 31) ... you state that the new insecticide DDT is deadly against the gypsy-moth caterpillar, black fly and mosquito. You have overlooked the fact that it is also deadly against the honey bee. . . . According to tests made at Michigan State College it has been found effective against flies, mosquitoes, ants, berry moths, leaf hoppers, thrips, and even rose chafers, but they have also found it ineffective against aphids, plant lice, Mexican bean beetle, and it just makes cockroaches drunk...
Some weeks ago, when the Allies were still stalled in Normandy, air-force joke-smiths circulated a cartoon entitled "This Too?"-depicting a couple of Mosquito bombers towing tanks across a wheat field. A junior officer on Coningham's staff scrutinized the cartoon, grinned, said: "We'd better not show it to the chief. He'd want...