Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British aviator was given the classic burn treatment: first a scrubbing under anesthesia, then applications of tannic acid (found in tea, bark, coffee, etc.). One day a noted surgeon visited him, ordered the tannic-acid treatment stopped at once. But it was too late. "This is what tannic acid does," said the lieutenant last week, holding up his glazed hands, permanently puckered into half-closed fists...
...chemical extinguisher which puts out burning magnesium, chief ingredient of incendiary bombs. Hitherto magnesium incendiaries have had to be smothered under buckets or sand heaps (water and common extinguishers only make them burn better). The new chemical, a secret of Pyrene Manufacturing Co., blankets the white-hot magnesium with dense, inert gases. Demonstrated last week before witnesses from the U.S. Army Air Corps, it may be of great value in Britain...
...tankers withdrawn this week normally carried 100,000 barrels from the Gulf to Eastern cities every day. When the second 25 follow soon, the seaboard oil stringency will be acute. Already Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has begun to convert part of its great Bayway (N.J.) refinery to burn coal instead of oil. This week Socony announced it would follow suit, and that it had already converted the heating system of its downtown Manhattan office building. Leon Henderson's civilian rationers in Washington assume that sales of new oil burners will have to be cut or stopped, that fuel...
...Master can still burn up the fairways for one round or so. Last month, playing a friendly foursome at Atlanta's East Lake Country Club (a par 70 layout), he tied the course record with a score...
...harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday, how do I say to you which way they go? This week Composer Bennett performs a clarinet concerto dedicated to Benny Goodman, who once played under him in a theatre orchestra. Next week: repetition of an earlier "music-box opera," based...