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Pyrethrum powder, a standard insecticide which is made from a certain chrysanthemum plant, used to be imported largely from Japan. In recent years coffeegrowers in Britain's Kenya Colony in Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...
...Alley was still grinding its own powder for the war this week, but mostly its powder looked and smelled like corn meal...
...toothpaste and shaving-cream buyers to turn in an old tube when they bought a new one, a Manhattan bride was horrified. She and her husband had used their parents' tooth paste; they had no tube to turn in. A drug clerk saved her honeymoon, sold her tooth powder...
...noise rose early on April Fools' Eve, with the full moon. It grew from a rattle to a roar, insistent, oncoming. It was mortar fire, machine-gun fire, rifle fire, dive-bombing, naval bombardment, all the powder in the powder...
Last week in the nation's insurance center, Hartford, the big stock companies were keeping their powder dry. Pointing to a 36% reduction in average fire rates during the past 20 years, and untold millions spent for inspection services and education in fire prevention, they insisted that rates are not too high. They admitted that in 1921 they paid out 62.3% of the premiums collected to policyholders for losses, and that during the last ten years the ratio has fallen to between 40 and 50% (which has enabled them to show an average underwriting profit of 6.1%). But they...