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There was evidence that in five years of war the Japanese had launched 1,000 mustard and lewisite gas attacks against the Chinese. The heaviest (TIME, Nov. 10) were in the battle for Ichang, in October 1941. On May 26, the Japanese forced a crossing of the Singang River near Kienteh by sending planes ahead to shower gas bombs on the defenders. A fortnight ago the Japanese took Kinhwa with the help of gas, and last week repeated the performance at Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa...
...duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison gases, five smoke agents for screening, and the trustworthy incendiary, thermite. The poison gases: mustard, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, chlorpicrin, diphosgene, phosgene and chlorine. Mustard gas is popular with high commands. It rises, colorless, from...
...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made "not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates...
...song (in San Francisco show named Patricia): Hot Dogs, Mustard...