Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from and perhaps toward the Invisible Enemy...
...White. What Science has done Science can undo. A telephone carried the catastrophic news to Berlin. Back flashed the advice of War Gas Army experts: "Pump ammonia into the air. Pump water, if that's all you've got. Throw the leaking phosgene tank into the canal. Water decomposes phosgene. Give the surviving patients milk...
...Colonial Day this same rousing theme was taken as a text by Dictator Mussolini, at Rome, where he proceeded to bestow a coveted medal on the corps flag of the Italian Colonial Air Force. In ringing tones Il Duce declared that during the four-month period of hottest fighting in the two African colonies, last winter, 4000 war flights were made, 100,000 rounds of ammunition fired, and 400,000 pounds of explosives were dropped upon native tribes foolish enough to resist the Italian colonizers...
Having thus clarioned to the nation's colonial conscience, Signer Mussolini pinned a bronze medal on Air Corps Flag Bearer Colonel Mario Stangani. Hugging and kissing the Colonel on both cheeks, Il Duce cried: "I embrace in you the whole Italian Colonial Aviation Service...
...Moscow, they said, King Amanullah flatly refused to participate in a scheduled presentation of 49 combat planes to the Red Air Force, when he learned that the planes had been purchased from the so-called Reply To Chamberlain Fund...