Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legends piled up fast. One told of a sea-crashed pilot who was found in his little rubber boat, paddling hotly with his bare hands toward Sikaiana and fighting off rescuers. Another related that a certain patrol-plane crew, overcome by tales of beauty and hospitality, got off course somehow and had to sit down for repairs at, of all places, Sikaiana. Then airmen of a rival service learned what had happened...
...Akron rubber workers, striking because a pay raise of 8? an hour recommended by a WLB panel had been reduced by the Board itself to 3?. President Roosevelt sent a stern telegram which damned the strike as "inexcusable," curtly ordered: "Return to work at once." The strikers went back. They had lost in five days enough time to have produced some $17,000,000 worth of plane deicers, self-sealing gas tanks, combat tires, life rafts, anti-aircraft guns, gas masks. They still demanded...
...Florey believes some surgical operations might be revised to take advantage of penicillin, tried it in 22 cases of mastoid. Immediately after operation, the incision was stitched up with a small rubber tube running to the bottom of the wound and closed by a spigot. Every six hours the tube was drained and filled with a penicillin solution. After a week the tube was removed. Nineteen of the cases were healed and only three needed any further treatment...
...Florey reported the treatment of old wounds with draining sinuses. They were filled with penicillin solution and stoppered with a rubber bung. The solution was changed twice a day. Of eleven wounds which had persisted for three months to twelve years, seven healed in four weeks...
...Wedgies" are the latest styles for paratroopers. The new rubber heels, made by Goodyear, have a smooth junction with the sole to avoid snagging, provide a better cushion for hard landings...