PugJesusM to HistoryPorn • 7 months agoUS soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down11starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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minus-square@GraniteMlinkEnglish38•7 months agoWe fucking LOVED DDT back in the day. These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950: arrow-up138arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareRuBisCOlinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-27 months agoHoly 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. arrow-up16arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareDark ArclinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoYou 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. arrow-up13arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
We fucking LOVED DDT back in the day.
These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950:
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.
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.