Word: mosquitoe
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Major General Leonard Wood, original commander of the Rough Riders, moved up to govern Cuba, and in 90 days stamped out the Aëdes aegypti mosquito, freeing Havana of yellow fever for the first time in 140 years. Four years after the U.S. marched in, it marched...
...wanted to expose mosquito larvae to radiation. So he had gone to the hospital and taken a 10-mg. radium needle. At home he opened it, expecting to find a single piece of radium. Instead, out came a powder that spilled over his hands...
...Like a mosquito at dusk, Manhattan Financial Consultant Randolph Phillips, 47, has driven many a big corporation to distraction with his stinging jabs at management control. His favorite target is railroads. Turning on his onetime associate, New York Central Railroad Chairman Robert R. Young, Phillips harried him so persistently through the courts that Young hardly dared go to Manhattan for months before his death because he feared Phillips' summonses. Last week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also...
Battle Against Bugs. Aerosol owes its existence to the anopheles mosquito. During World War II two young Department of Agriculture scientists, Lyle D. Goodhue and William N. Sullivan Jr., developed the "bug bomb" to kill mosquitoes. The Government got the patent on aerosol (it still licenses, free, all marketers of aerosol insecticides); Scientists Goodhue and Sullivan got nothing...
...Anopheles may get out of hand. Abandoning area spraying, the malaria fighters are tackling the huge job of spraying every dwelling in malarial regions. Walls are saturated with DDT as fast as possible; scheduled are at least three more annual sprayings. This way, doctors believe, the cycle of mosquito-man-mosquito renewal can be broken...