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...typical case, a steelworker was horribly burned when molten metal filled his boot. After eight months of hospitalization and every type of conventional treatment from skin-grafting to sulfa drugs, his leg was still unhealed and infected, and he had a high fever. Several doctors decided that amputation was inevitable. Dr. Walsh took over and treated him with "Biodyne" ointment. In four months, the charred leg was good...
...mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with a tone like molten silver. Not when Gene Schracder bangs out a fine barrel-house piano...
...firefighter can play water on the bomb from a safer distance, and, if the bomb explodes, the stream from the hose will force the molten fragments away from him. Says OCD at last: "Exaggerated conception of the 'terrors' of the bomb has instilled unjustified fear." Previous misunderstanding of incendiaries derives from early experiments by British scientists, who studied the laboratory behavior of pure magnesium, which burns fiercely in water. The British concluded that magnesium incendiary bombs would behave the same way. But the metal in real bombs is only 80% magnesium. The rest is an alloy to make...
...welder's electric arc just as it does in magnesium incendiary bombs. But after two years of research, engineers of Northrop Aircraft Inc. discovered that magnesium can safely be arc-welded if the hot metal is blanketed with helium to exclude atmospheric oxygen. The helium also cools the molten metal, acts as a metal-cleaning flux...
...fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...