Word: mothing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...termite and the brown dog tick are among the most menacing-their population is growing rapidly. But even in modern, skyscraping Manhattan, man's worst insect enemies are still the ancient, hardy foes against which he has waged long and barely equal warfare-the cockroach, bedbug, ant, moth, silverfish...
Country Visitors. By far the most damaging insect, and most at home in modern civilization, is the clothes moth. It has been known to eat house insulation as well as clothes, rugs, etc. (it is destructive in the larval stage only). Best weapons against the moth are sunlight, moth balls or flakes, paradichlorobenzene. Chemists have recently developed effective new methods for permanent mothproofing of wool - for postwar...
...TIME (July 31) ... you state that the new insecticide DDT is deadly against the gypsy-moth caterpillar, black fly and mosquito. You have overlooked the fact that it is also deadly against the honey bee. . . . According to tests made at Michigan State College it has been found effective against flies, mosquitoes, ants, berry moths, leaf hoppers, thrips, and even rose chafers, but they have also found it ineffective against aphids, plant lice, Mexican bean beetle, and it just makes cockroaches drunk...
Three months ago Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture decided to try the deadly chemical on the gypsy-moth cater pillar, one of the worst tree-stripping pests in eastern U.S. forests. From an airplane, entomologists sprayed five pounds of DDT per acre over 20 acres of timberland near Scranton...
...auto solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...