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Shrapnel is a form of ammunition named for the English army officer who invented it. It consists of one-half inch in diameter lead balls hardened with antimony which are fired from a forged steel case by a charge of black powder exploded by a time fuse when the shrapnel-filled-case is about ten yards above the target on its way down to earth...
...besides there's not enough demand for this kind of material." Another delegate admitted, however, that Japan, biggest buyer of U. S. scrap (TIME, March 11), was now buying 400 tons of scrap aluminum a month. "They can use this material for making fuse caps," said...
Hyperbole, too, is present, and in the prose where this purple patch appears: "Violence is almost visible, like a smonldering fuse under the city, as it creeps toward explosion...
When the electrical contacts are made with a nerve, the result is quite different. A nerve is somewhat analogous to the fuse of a firecracker. When a stimulus comes, it travels up the nerve like the spark in a fuse. Just as the spark gives off light and heat, so the nerve gives off electrical disturbances. By tests of nerve stimuli, it is possible to determine the sensitivity and range...
Vickers appropriated a Krupp invention, a special fuse for hand grenades. After the War Krupp sued Vickers in the English courts for violation of patent rights, asked 123,000,000 shillings (a shilling a fuse) damages. Vickers settled out of court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader asks, "How can such things be?" Attorneys Engelbrecht, Hanighen & Seldes point out that these sowers of dragons' teeth are mighty members of their countries' councils, control big newspapers and bigger banks; that their governments, which cannot afford to run state-owned arms industries, cannot afford to let their...