Word: mosquitoe
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...Columbia, S.C., after a three-year study, the National Malaria Society's Journal reported some cheering statistics. Aboard some 28,000 planes entering the U.S. annually from malaria-infested areas were "several thousand" mosquito stowaways. But only 11% wriggled through the rigid quarantine curtain and arrived alive at New Orleans, Miami and Brownsville. Of these, not more than 20 a year were the exotic, potential carriers of malaria. The chances of this tiny number ever managing to survive and increase, the Journal said, were "infinitesimal and of no quarantine concern...
...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...interest to sell surplus warplanes (and ammunition for their guns) to the Nationalist government of China. Theoretically, Ottawa's policy toward the Chinese civil war was still "hands off," but by selling excess war equipment the government saw a chance to turn an honest dollar. For 323 Mosquito fighter-bombers, and to put them in condition for shipping, China spent...
...Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose) field proved that the Amazon had oil (TIME, April 22, 1946), surveys have gone discreetly...
...after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite. Others put their money on the horses at Palermo, San Isidro and La Plata, rattled by train to the mosquito-infested waterways at Tigre for the weekend...