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...almost dangerous point. The Government, seriously thinking that the enemy might use gas in his assault on the British Isles, initiated a series of test gas attacks, warned citizens to keep their masks about them, reminded them that the yellow signboards all over the countryside would turn red if blister gas touched them, issued instructions for making rooms relatively gasproof with sticky tape and rubber stripping...
...their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest gas to make...
...admitted he had "given him the knee." Harlem's New York Age headlined: "Secretary of Pres. Roosevelt Kicks N. Y. Negro Policeman. "New York's Police Commissioner Valentine ordered an investigation. So did District Attorney Tom Dewey, out campaigning for Willkie. Protests and denunciations began to blister in the press. Somebody remembered that Steve Early had written a Saturday Evening Post article last year on the unfair attacks on President Roosevelt. Its title: "Below the Belt...
...Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to recuperate. In order to bring Big Sister back at the end of this month, Miss Bartlett is planning to have a drunken no-good set fire to a tenement, blister Big Sister's husband, Dr. Wayne, so badly that she'll have to rush home to take care...
...west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed and she made port under her own steam...