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...grain bins and warehouses: Spray walls and woodwork with 5% DDT in kerosene. Don't get it on the grain; treat bins when empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: This Summer--DDT | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...will be provided with another house just as good if not better." Mrs. Pearson, unhappy, nervous, with tears in her eyes, protested: "But we don't want another house; we have been here for 20 years." Mr. Pearson showed his guest to the garden, broke off a spray of apple blossom, said: "But you can't give me back my apple trees." Answered Mr. Silkin: "No, but we are trying to give you a better Stevenage." Retorted Pearson, "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: At the Stiff Oak | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender, the bases had to be built from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It's the Upkeep | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...tropic-marine" room permeated with salt spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man-Made Weather | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flit-Gun Hop | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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