Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face...
Where the WAACs will fit into the Army remains to be seen. Some of the subjects now in the curriculum: Army cooking, motor transport, aircraft spotting, close-order drill, use of civilian and military maps, practice in gas mask use, leadership, organization of the Army and the WAAC, methods of training and, above all, company administration and property accountability...
Lauchlin Currie denounced Japan's "tawdry mask." He restated "our pledge to deliver to China's veteran armies and experienced generals a striking power that will turn a long and glorious war of resistance into offensive campaigns." He assured the Chinese that President Roosevelt and his advisers "have a full conception of this as a global, worldwide war." He said that China...
...world's greatest experts on poisons were given honorary degrees in medicine last week at Connecticut State Medical Society's sesquicentennial celebration. The toxicologists: Dr. Alice Hamilton, 73, industrial expert and first woman professor at Harvard; Physiologist Yandell Henderson, 69, of Yale, inventor of the modern gas mask...
...Tousled, belligerent Yandell Henderson has concentrated on poison gases, of war and peace. During World War I, Professor Henderson (with his assistant, Howard Haggard) invented a gas mask, but his greatest scientific work is his research on respiration. Physiologists long believed that asphyxiation was caused by lack of oxygen plus an accumulation of "poisonous" carbon dioxide in the body. The old method of resuscitation was to pump pure oxygen into lungs. But this method was seldom successful. Professor Henderson proved that carbon dioxide in small amounts is really an essential breathing stimulant, introduced an O 2 -CO 2 mixture which...