Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
Harvard officialdom has shrouded the construction of the Widener Annex in a cloak of mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...
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...dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento-profile scale; another is "facial moulage," a life mask...
...customer Vultee Aircraft announced a $9,000,000 expansion at Nashville. Aluminum Co. of America's aluminum sheet (for planes) plant at Alcoa, Tenn. is the only Alcoa sheet plant in a U. S. prime defense area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will be Tennessee Powder Co. at Memphis, now being built by Du Pont engineers with British money. Of the new ordnance plants planned...