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Several badly infested London hospitals have been completely cleared of cockroaches; a Hurst emulsion not only killed all adult roaches at once but persisted long enough to destroy young ones as they hatched...
...demonstrate the speed of his killer, Dr. Hurst released 1,000 houseflies in a room 15 by 15 ft., noted the wall spaces where most of them alighted, then painted the spots with his preparation. In 27 minutes every fly was dead...
Since last summer, flies have had no truck with 240 shops of the big British chain, Marks and Spencer; Dr. Hurst's spot-painting did the trick (one store which he treated only once, on August 22, 1945, has not had a fly since...
...inventor, Cambridge Chemist Harry Hurst, 34, claimed that he had got rid of the defects in DDT (see below). DDT is 1) slow, and 2) deadly to good as well as bad insects. Dr. Hurst said that some of his mixtures seem to be highly selective, attacking pests but leaving useful insects unharmed. He had also found Activated DDT lethal to some bothersome insects, notably cockroaches, which are not bothered much by DDT alone...
Another young (40) Minnesota Republican supplied specifics where Stassen had dealt in generalities. U.S. Senator Joseph Hurst Ball, an internationalist from way back, came out for a superstate and told how to get one. The atomic bomb, he thought, left no alternative. In any sensible system, said Ball...