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...mosquito boats...
...Subway shelters are becoming infested with a new pest: the dainty, bloodthirsty European mosquito called Culex molestus, from the cesspools of Southern Europe...
...Oxonian than the Isis, he sneered at Britain's martial aims, deplored the bucktoothed poverty of the British populace, condemned Britain's leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British. At last the infallible ear of a deserted wife in Sussex recognized Lord Haw-Haw's voice as her runaway husband's. His name: William Joyce, a onetime bully boy of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...
...commander of the first PT squadron, Lieut. Caldwell and his weather-battered men were pioneering the first new Navy fighting craft since planes became a fleet weapon. For their insignia they went to Cineman Walt Disney, got what they wanted from his Hollywood studio- a mosquito astride a torpedo. For their tactics they went abroad, for the new PTs-some 70 ft. of hull enclosing 4,500 h.p. in three engines- are designed for a job new to the U. S. Navy, old stuff to the British, Italians and Germans. The PTs are made for swift dashes into harbors...
Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...