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Word: dyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast as one coat of dye dries, another is applied, until the patient looks as though he were covered with a light, flexible coat of purple leather. Then he is kept at a temperature of around 85° F. The dye protects the raw flesh, and kills all bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dye for Burns | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...burns for hundreds of years, tannic acid may do more harm than good. For: 1) it forms a thick, hard crust, under which germs flourish; 2) it kills delicate new skin cells. The British are now turning away from tannic acid, to other methods-among them, the triple dye treatment of Dr. Aldrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dye for Burns | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

When a patient recovers from shock, Dr. Aldrich treats him for the next hazard -death from streptococcic infection. Loose bits of skin are trimmed away, but he is not scrubbed. A surgeon sprays a mixed solution of three aniline dyes-crystal violet, brilliant green, and brownish neutral acriflavine directly on to his burned skin. As soon as the dye covers his exposed nerve ends, all pain stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dye for Burns | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Government attached funds of the giant I. G. Farbenindustrie, German dye trust. Indicted last winter with several U.S. companies for violating the antitrust laws in the magnesium industry, officials refused to appear, contending they were not doing business as a U.S. corporation. The Attorney General claimed that the seizure (timed with expected receipt of $250,000 due I. G. Farbenindustrie that same day for license fees from U.S. firms) would compel the dye trust to appear before a U.S. court if it wanted to protest, w

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Robert Jackson's Busy Week | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...window that tied up traffic last week was at Franklin Simon's. Designers Claire Lang, James Gosling and George Perkins reproduced the whole door of a church and an adjoining stained-glass window (made out of Cellophane and shoe dye), a lawn with real grass. Through the church door paraded a dozen live models, women in spring street clothes, men in frock coats, military uniforms and mufti. Once a day six choristers from the Paulist choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Along the Avenue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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