Word: moths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privacy and for the first time since LINDBERGH became a magic name this request had been made to someone who could and would grant it, HITLER. At a word from Der Führer it became impossible for any German paper to mention that a borrowed British Gipsy-Moth had taken off from Penshurst, Kent at 10:15 a. m. with the Colonel at the controls and was about to land him for the first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield...
...common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce...
Collins & Aikman Corp., Philadelphia upholstery makers, have a moth research laboratory and a corps of collectors who get 5? for each specimen brought in. The insects are kept in dark, insulated, electrically heated rooms, fed choice animal yarns, pitted against experimental proofing compounds. The company guarantees its moth-proofed fabrics for five years with contracts underwritten by an affiliate of Aetna Life Insurance...
...Clothes moths notoriously do more damage in late spring and summer than in winter. At Cornell, however, Entomologist Grace Hall Griswold has shown that the insect breeds all year around. It occurred to shy, elderly Miss Griswold, as to many another investigator, that the dryness of U. S. homes in winter may be what deters moths' winter activities. If this is so, she reasoned, the blessing of air-conditioning would also be a blessing for moths. Miss Griswold and a young associate named Mary Frances Crowell rigged a number of jars in which five different humidities, ranging from...
...bait intended to lure moths away from clothing has been put on the market by a Wisconsin manufacturer. Called "Moth Wool," it consists of a package of blue woolen fabric, contains a chemical which kills the eggs laid in it, costs 95?. What the secret of its attraction is the maker refuses to reveal...