Word: mosquitoe
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...blood's as thin now as Green River's 69 cent special will be in 1944. A Cambridge mosquito (they disguise themselves during the day as Harvard Yard pigeons) bit me last night and nearly strangled me. Reminded me of W. C. Fields when they tried to revive him in that movie. "I'm poisoned," he cried. "It's water...
...little harm; but if they plug lymph-gland ducts, may cause elephantiasis (huge swellings) in scrotum or legs. For some unknown reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control. The only U.S. area infected at present is Charleston...
...Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor...
...Puratized Process, in six variations, is being sold to some 150 processors of textiles, leather, etc., who end up with mildew-proof mosquito netting, rubber life rafts, webbing, boots, etc. for the Army & Navy. It is so potent, Frank Sowa figures, that 200 gallons would mildew-proof all the shoes in the U.S. Army...
...from the scheduled first Honolulu performance of This Is the Army, closed recreation centers, confined sailors in Waikiki's Royal Hawaiian Hotel (now a Navy rest center) to the hotel grounds. A Negro chemical-warfare company moved into Waikiki with thousands of gallons of insecticide to wipe out mosquito-breeding places. But by week's end the epidemic had spread to seven Honolulu districts. Officers feared they might have to declare the whole city out of bounds for the armed forces...