Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patients are assigned to wards according to their injuries: there are orthopedic wards, head and spine wards, malaria, abdominal wound and dysentery wards. At his ward a patient is undressed, put in pajamas. His clothes, except for his shoes, helmet and gas mask, are stored away in a labeled bag. After that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther...
This news is worse than it sounds. Under the Army's timetable of planning ahead, the production goal must be set higher month after month, until the still-growing Army is wholly equipped to the last shoelace and gas mask, and further, until the Army has a solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed...
Dawn left Hollywood to fight with the British during World War I, but returned in 1919 as a make-up assistant with Universal. He began making whole false faces to suit parts. One of his first was a stiff, heavy irritating mask he wore in the role of an ape in 1925. In 1935, after nine years of research while doing makeups for M.G.M., he found what he wanted- a synthetic plastic good for making mobile, lifelike masks. It is of secret composition (the process is patented, but he gives it to the Navy free) which he calls vinylite resin...
...Dawn Method. First step in making a Dawn inlay for a disfigured man is to make a life mask of his face with the missing parts added. Then the extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...
...main event on the program was the donning of a rubber Willkie mask by one of the performers, followed by the throwing out of the first ball in the Winthrop House extra-softball season in the traditional F.D.R. manner. The two men concluded the performance by jumping to the ground; training for the parachute troops no doubt...