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Lewisite, another blister gas, was developed toward the close of World War I in the U.S., is now a favorite of the Japs. Deadliest gas of World War I was phosgene: a couple of good whiffs mean a painful and almost certain death. The U.S. has no part in any treaty outlawing gas warfare...
...vaccine made from the herpes virus (allied to the fever blister and shingles virus) helps to prevent severe nervous degeneration if given over a period of several months. Dr. Neal has tried the vaccine on many patients, with apparently good result...
...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
Mort Waldstein, who struck out 11 of the Scarlet batsmen in the first encounter, went out with a blister on his pitching hand in the fourth inning against Cornell last Saturday and is not yet ready for action...
...bushels of wheat in North America in 1916, was proved to pass part of its life cycle on barberry bushes. So, within twelve years, some 18,500,000 of these bushes were destroyed in the U. S. alone. Wild currants were eradicated because they nourished a blister-fungus of U. S. white pine...