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...versatile 4.2 rifled mortar (TIME, Nov. 15). Developed by the Chemical Warfare Service to throw smoke and gas shells, it also lobs 24-lb. shells which carry more than 8 lb. of high explosives. But it owes its new and fearsome fame among Germans and Japs to its white phosphorus smoke shells. Originally used to cloak troops or positions with harmless white clouds, WP (white phosphorus) has become one of the great anti-personnel weapons...
When a WP shell bursts in a spectacular flower of smoke (see cut), it scatters flaming phosphorus particles over a wide area. The rain of fire sticks to clothing, cannot be brushed off. Larger particles burn through to produce burns particularly painful and hard to heal...
...incendiary bombs are appearing in great and deadly variety. The Russians are said to be using a rocket-propelled phosphorus bomb that explodes over troop concentrations, causing extremely painful burns to soldiers and dislodging them from foxholes, trenches, barricades...
...holes in his teeth (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). So, a couple of years ago, reported a brave dentist named Edward Taylor who practiced there. Dentist Taylor thought that tough teeth resulted from the meat and vegetables raised on Deaf Smith soil, rich in calcium and phosphorus, and from Deaf Smith drinking water, rich in calcium and fluorine...
...Journal of the American Dental Association last week, Dentist S. G. Harootian told how he gave the Deaf Smith treatment a preliminary clinical trial in a Massachusetts madhouse. Dr. Harootian gave capsules of bone flour (rich in calcium, phosphorus and fluorine) to nine women whose teeth were decaying very rapidly. Decay seemed to stop almost at once. During the nine-month trial no tooth decay spread, only one new cavity developed. One hole, drilled for a filling but left empty, did not decay...