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Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...
...ounces dropped in a swamp kills all mosquito larvae...
...National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council for War Production (which includes all auto-makers), warning in large newspaper ads that recognition of the foremen's union would mean letting labor leaders "take over the management of our war production plants," appealed to the President and Congress...
...sorry to see him go. Last midnight I was chatting with several correspondents and officers. . . . Major Bong was sleepy, climbed into the cot and pulled down the mosquito netting. 'Get the hell out. I am going to sleep,' he remarked pointedly. Obviously he is no respecter of the 'power of the press...
...hardest single thing" facing Navy doctors today is filariasis, a mosquito-borne disease which sometimes develops into elephantiasis, particularly of the scrotum. Already returned to the U.S. are 3,000 South Seas filariasis cases, mostly marines...