Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrades!"cried Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. "Cheer up! Smite the Germans! Burn them...
...that afternoon the Lafayette burned. Held back by policemen, Army & Navy patrols, crowds choked the streets, jammed skyscraper windows. Among the watchers was a small, greying man with a heavy accent. With agonized eyes Vladimir Yourkevitch, naval architect, designer of the ship's hull, watched the Lafayette burn. Suspicious policemen refused to let him through the lines. In the pier shed beside the ship, tall, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Chief of the Third Naval District, watched...
...wrote Reporter Lee, "he volunteered to burn the enemy-held town of Samal. He crawled through the Japanese lines before dawn with five gallons of gasoline and walked behind the shacks where the Japanese were sleeping. He sprinkled the gasoline, threw a lighted match and fled...
What answer is there to the radio which cautions the world against the democracy which is coming to Asia to hang men without trial or burn them alive? Shall we merely counter with Nazi horror tales, or deny that colored draftees were fired on in North Carolina? Or would it be better to reassure the Allies' colonials that we reserve such treatment solely for our domestic Negroes...
Hydrosulphosol, an -SH (sulfydryl) solution,* reported Dr. Mellon in Industrial Medicine last fortnight, was tried on 150 burn cases, moderate and severe, by Drs. Archie Edward Cruthirds of Phoenix, Ariz, and Wilmot Frank Pierce of Los Angeles. The burns were caused by steam, hot metal, hot oil, lime, gasoline. Patients were sprayed with mixtures of Hydrosulphosol and water every 20 or 30 minutes until a tough "eschar," or "scab" was built up. The eschar is flexible, leaves room for motion, reduces scars to a minimum. Hydrosulphosol, said Dr. Mellon, not only relieves pain, but prevents infection, great hazard in burn...