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...proficiency in arms; perfect planning and instant, athletic response to commands. In this picture is the other side of the retreat to Dunkirk; the blasting of Tournai; the whining accuracy of the Stukas (divers); the plod and dash-as occasion required-of German soldiers afoot or on horses drawing cannon, of German soldiers looking like men from horrid Mars in grimy, indestructible machines of all types. Some 23 Army cameramen were killed making the picture...
Bill's advantage over Lizzie was that he was supported by at least 250 lesser cannon which the British kept crowding in on a semicircle about eight miles deep around Bardia, while other naval guns fired inland from fleet units standing at sea. Lizzie's support was Italian bombing planes which, massing their attack, tried to blast the tightening ring of British force. But the R. A. F. was present, too, with eight-gun fighters against two-gun crates. Mussolini, far away in Rome, decreed that his troops in Bardia must hold out to the end to permit...
...physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums and sulfapyridine or sulfathiazole; for lipid pneumonia there is no treatment. At present, said Dr. Cannon, oil pneumonia is recognized chiefly at autopsy...
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs. It can be caused by any one of 33 types of pneumococci, by many other bacteria, or by viruses. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Paul Roberts Cannon of the University of Chicago warned physicians of another, "manmade" form of the disease: oil pneumonia...
When lipid pneumonia was discovered 15 years ago, doctors believed it was a children's disease. But, said Dr. Cannon last fortnight, "accumulated evidence has proved . . . that it affects all ages. . . . It is now certain that healthy persons may develop severe types of lipid pneumonia, especially if they use medicated liquid petrolatum intranasally in large quantities over long periods of time. . . . Abandonment of this type of medication will be slow because of the fact that so many persons have used oily nose drops with no apparent ill effects...