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...DDT (for insects), 2-4-0 (for weeds) and the atomic bomb (for people), science has added another great killer: "1080 (for rats), triumphantly announced in Science last week by the U.S. Wildlife Research Laboratory...
...Winnebago County, Illinois, which includes Rockford (pop. 84,637). The city, which has had 163 cases and 19 deaths, waited last week to find out whether a spraying with DDT (TIME, Aug. 27), does any good. New cases fell off a little...
...Jersey (pop. 4,160,165) with 519 cases and 43 deaths. To control the disease, Trenton and nearby towns have quarantined their children from school, church, swimming pools, movies. Paterson has been sprayed with DDT. The State Director of Health says carefully that New Jersey has no epidemic, but has proclaimed a "state of emergency" and asked the Red Cross for nurses, quick...
Betty Tyson's debut might be remembered not only as ushering in the new day of peace, but as a scientific milestone as well-just before the guests arrived, the grounds had been liberally sprayed with DDT...
...Besides DDT, three other highly effective weapons have been developed for the Army & Navy: 1) an insect "bomb," consisting of a small can which, when opened, releases an "aerosol" gas loaded with an insecticide (such as DDT or quick-killing pyrethrum) that instantly fills a room; 2) a new mosquito repellent, "Formula 6-12," which smells like witch hazel and is reported to be six times as effective as 100% citronella; 3) N.M.R.I. 201, a still more effective repellent just developed by the Navy, said to last eleven hours...