Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standard treatment for wounds in World War II is to trim off all dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution...
...Harbor, Jimmy Doolittle, then a major, told friends at Los Angeles Municipal Airport: "I'm going to get in this thing with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...
Before the Revolution, icons were still gathering soot in dim church recesses. Many were repainted six or seven times, defaced with plaster, chalk and glue relief. Their artistic worth escaped even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...
Thomas Whittemore, for a study of the mosaics, plaster and marbles in Aya Sofya in Istanbul...
...contributed as much as any, more than most, to the advancement of commercial and military flying. As a professional soldier he was the first to take off, fly and land by instruments. He set distance records, tested wings, engines, anything. He once flew across the Andes, his legs in plaster casts, to demonstrate a U.S. plane...