PugJesus@kbin.socialM to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.world · 2 years agoUS soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1159
arrow-up1159imageUS soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945media.kbin.socialPugJesus@kbin.socialM to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 years agoWe fucking LOVED DDT back in the day. These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950:
minus-squareRuBisCO@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 years 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.
minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years 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.
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.