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tention whatever to W. P. B.'s 5 per cent limitation. The 

 public rushed to buy; and Mr. Steuber made a handsome 

 profit. 



The W. P. B., however, was mighty displeased with this 

 flagrant flouting of its regulations, and the regular manu- 

 facturers of DDT, who had been anxiously awaiting the 

 start of the race for the civilian market, were not happy to see 

 a competitor — even though he operated on an insignificant 

 scale — ^get the jump on them. It would have been easy to 

 crack down on Mr. Steuber, but the W. P. B. decided, very 

 sensibly, to permit all manufacturers to sell a much higher 

 percentage of their output for civilian purposes. The battle 

 for the domestic market was now on. Soon, DDT prepara- 

 tions, under numerous names and formulated by various com- 

 panies, were appearing in store windows all over America. 



