[Boatanchors] Replacing 866s with 3B28s

[Jan Erik Holm]

OK I´ll buy that, you know more then I do about this. You had to
consume it or maybe inhale would have been enough.

Jim SM2EKM
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On 2010-12-30 16:08, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
> So far as I know, people didn't die from DDT unless they consumed it.
> DDT saved countless human lives from diseases borne by insects,
> particularly mosquitoes.  It was a major tool in the fight to control
> malaria.  Rachel Carson, in her book "Silent Spring," pointed out that
> DDT was killing the birds.  Many would say that the arguments in "Silent
> Spring" in 1962 led to the banning of DDT in 1972 and the birth of the
> environmental movement in the United States.  The once nearly extinct
> Brown Pelican made an amazing recovery after DDT was banned.
>
> 73,
> Ken - K4XL
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm at telia.com
> <mailto:sm2ekm at telia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes and we also used DDT!! Some people did die
>     like flies.
>     /Jim SM2EKM
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>     On 2010-12-30 04:34, w4awm at aol.com <mailto:w4awm at aol.com> wrote:
>      >
>      >   I recall that one of the high class hotels in Greenville, SC
>     used to coat their change in mercury back in the late 40s and early
>     50s. Everyone who got change carried that stuff around in their
>     pockets until it was all spent. Wow, what we didn't know back then.\
>      >
>      > John,  W4AWM
>      >
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