MERRIMACK, N.H. — Harold Foote plucked a small, dusty box off one of the piles that rise like cardboard stalagmites from the floor of his cavernous warehouse. He snapped the fossilized Scotch-tape ...

In self-congratulatory advertisements last week, Gimbel’s Department Store in Manhattan announced a sale of Army DDT sprayers good for murdering anything from spiders to tsetse-flies. Modell’s ...