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...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change of guards. A favorite discipline forced them to sit, with heads bowed, as long as eight hours at a stretch, facing Tokyo. They...
...this incomprehensible vastness, about $163 billions have not been spent. At the present spending rate ($4,494,000,000 in July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable that the Federal debt will rise from the present $80 billions to more than $200 billions...
Charged Denman: 1) From 50,000 to 100,000 people might perish in an enemy-set fare engulfing San Francisco's wooden structures, with the prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...
...blanket of fog and censorship in which Alaska was muffled last week one ray of sunshine peeped: a letter from Major Bill Adams, onetime West Coast radioman. Printed in Broadcasting the letter told of a little "one-lung outfit," KODK, whose tiny transmitter made a welcome whistle in lonely Fort Greely on Kodiak Island...