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US soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945 (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We fucking LOVED DDT back in the day.

These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Holy Silent Spring and Merchants of Doubt, Clair Patterson! That's some Nuka-cola snake oil shit right there. Ye gods.

Nog and Quark in Area 51, the smell of tobacco and profit fill the air.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You can almost feel the paranoia that some folks have about a little bit of dirt or a couple of bugs in their house forming in 20th century advertising.