Word: thallium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest insect to control is the ant. Manhattan is infested with small red ants; they often nest in buildings instead of in the ground, eat sweets, meat, greasy garbage. The most successful poison against them is thallium sulfate baited with sugar - but all prewar supplies of thallium sulfate came from Germany and France...