Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because bandages are eliminated, wounds can be inspected at any time. In several Mare Island cases bullet and shrapnel wounds were discovered in burned areas which would have been overlooked had they been bandaged. ^ Wax treatment does not produce the leathery crust which forms on burns treated with tannic acid and dyes. These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully...
...must be frightful to have been wounded twice, to have fought for 15 months, and now to make a fifth trip to a flaming city. In 15 minutes she will pass through burning buildings, and somewhere under the rain of shrapnel and bombs will pick up a wounded man and bring him back to the ferryboat. Then she will make her sixth trip...
Back from the dead in the great romantic tradition last week came China's glamorous black-banged Butterfly Wu, the fragile cinemactress but durable adventuress, who was supposedly killed by flying shrapnel in the siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang...
...only medical facilities near the jungle battlefields were two hospitals in northern Peru belonging to a Standard subsidiary. Company ambulances, planes and trucks hauled casualties of both armies to its hospitals, which set up extra cots in halls and patios. "We spent days removing pieces of shrapnel and bullets from the wounded," wrote Dr. Lewis Eraser last week in The Medical Bulletin...
...special blackout street lamp has been announced by General Electric. It is made of plastics and cast iron, with no glass, hence is fairly immune to shrapnel. The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet...