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concept-2078	none	From the Frontlines to Silent Spring: DDT and America’s War on Insects, 1941-1962*	2016	29	.pdf	application/pdf	11535	548	58	Advertisements for products like Industrial Management Corporation’s new DDT aerosol bug bomb, known as INSECT-O-BLITZ, a name used to emphasize the effectiveness of the product, told consumers that the product “kills moths, all mosquitoes, all gnats and other disease bearing flying insects THE U.S. ARMY WAY.”65 Citizens who had been “pawing the ground in eagerness” for DDT since its debut in Naples purchased the pesticide in large quantities.61 By the end of 1945, DDT sales skyrocketed with chemical companies such as Merck reported over $61.1 million in domestic sales and over thirty million pounds of DDT sold to consumers and farmers between August and December.62 Demand for the product was so great that stores had difficulty keeping it in stock.	cache/concept-2078.pdf	txt/concept-2078.txt