Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleets of tanks. We know that motorization and mechanization are here to stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence to find mustard casualties soaring close to the 100% mark in the smaller units. . . . In addition to these mustard casualties it seems to me that we must expect and prepare for another type of burn. Today there...
...retreatants, 135 boilermakers, riveters, mechanics who spent last Independence Day weekend at Malvern. Scheduled for this week is Malvern's first retreat for young boys, to be followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...
...deadly rain that fell from the aircraft made all those whom it touched fly shrieking with pain. All those who drank poisoned water or ate infected food also succumbed in dread ful suffering. In tens of thousands the victims of Italian mustard gas fell...
...duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant entry, Italy's new Viceroy of Ethiopia...
...casualties in the War totaled about 1,000,000, deaths about 78,000. Lewisite was developed too late for War use. Like mustard gas, it inflames its victim's respiratory system, burns his skin. Its superiority to mustard gas lies in the fact that it also poisons the burns...