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...Silversmiths may absorb so much silver that their skin becomes slate grey. "Canary" is the name for an explosive-powder worker whose hair and skin have become red-yellow from tetryl. A foundry worker often has red-streaked forearms...
...Over 300 other C.O.s have volunteered for a wide variety of special projects "to help science save lives." In New Hampshire a group of 35 did road work for three-week stretches in louse-infested clothes, to permit studies which played a part in the development of DDT, the powder which saved bombed Naples from a typhus epidemic (TIME, Jan. 10, June 12, 1944). Five other C.O.s spent days on a life raft off Cape Cod, to determine, among other things, the effects of drinking sea water under shipwreck conditions...
Secret of the kickless weapon: it lets some of the powder blast drive to the rear through the breech as the projectile is driven forward. Result: the rearward blast cancels out the "kick" of the gun. One of the weapon's drawbacks: the blast-a fiery column 12-to-15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter-might betray its location to the enemy...
Tommy Holmes is the big reason why the sixth-place Braves have already drawn 15,000 more cash customers than they did all last season. The Yankees, whose present powder-puffing at the plate has put them in the also-ran class, could certainly...
...Boston store has given SPB one moneymaking example. It bought surplus gas masks from SPB. From rubber tubes on the mask, it made bicycle handlebar covers; from the glass lenses it made workshop goggles; by painting the canisters it sold them as powder-puff holders. From what was left it made toy gas masks...