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...cheese are difficult to get; pancake-mix stays on the shelf when the butter supply is tight. Jello is in demand as a substitute for canned fruits. Unrationed relishes and pickles outsell rationed catsup. Since working women have less time and inclination to bake, sales of extracts and baking powder have slumped. Dog food, originally the No. 1 U.S. seller in cans, has fallen off 50%. (Dogs do not like the dehydrated products...
...view of the name of the building to which this letter is addressed, it's a bit amusing to see that DDT is a delousing powder whose real name is censored to TIME (March 6), but whose name was published by LIFE...
...suggest that the U.S. Army's new DDT delousing powder be applied liberally to relieve the "censorship itch" afflicting the person who deleted DDT's "real name...
Some cinemaddicts disturbed by the gap between the seriousness of the subject matter and this somewhat sorority-house treatment of it, may feel as if they had been brained with a powder puff...
Derived from pine-tree sap, the powder is a cheap (less than $5,000 per mile of 40-ft. road), quick road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work...