Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kicked out of a barn by a horse, presently tried to show friends how it happened, was promptly kicked by the horse again. In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes...
Navy flyers in the South Pacific reported that a "Type 3" Jap fighter, probably equipped with a self-sealing gas tank, did not burn and explode as readily as the light Zeros do. But they also said that Type 3 was no match for the new Vought Corsair...
...cream has not been tested in battle. But there have been many tests on volunteers at the Institute. During these tests, the doctors discovered that blonds, brunets and redheads differ in susceptibility to burns. They suggest that fighting men be encouraged to get suntanned as a burn protection. The new cream has also been demonstrated at the Army's Armored Command Research Medical Laboratory with a view to its use by tank crews, who, like sailors, are liable to powder and fuel flash burns...
Colonel Ed has seen things in the company he has kept that, would burn and illumine the pages of history. But his memoirs, if he ever writes them, would probably lack the acid, gossipy trivia that make such memoirs bestsellers. To this native of Hopkinsville, Ky. the world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens...
George Galiowhur's peacetime business was founded on the fact that people get sunburned-his Skol outsold all other anti-burn lotions. His war business (except for Sunstill) is founded upon two other equally factual premises: 1) people get bitten by insects; 2) fabrics are attacked by mildew, mold...