Word: shrapnel
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...rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination of this scrap-iron convoy is Chungking, China's new capital 500 miles upriver from Hankow, where the junk will be converted into shrapnel...
...other words, over a period of years, British sterling would prove more effective in China than Japanese shrapnel...
...hands of Dictators. This should be a warning to America of what can, and will, happen as soon as certain foreign powers have developed their aircraft to such extent that they will be able to enter the stratosphere, come to this country, drop their destructive bombs of shrapnel and gas on an unsuspecting people and return to their country without ever being seen May Orson Welles have taught us a lesson in his portrayal of a sudden attack on America...
...reached the car and passed the chocolate to the man in the driver's seat a 75 mm. shrapnel shell burst right beside him with a deafening roar. A steel splinter drove through 'his back, killing him instantly. The man beside him crumpled up mortally wounded. Of the two men in the rear seat one writhed with a shattered leg, the other was barely hurt. Before the occupants of the other cars could reach their friends, a second shell, which did little damage, threw them flat on their faces...
Hustled to a base hospital at Santa Eulalia and then to Saragossa beside his wounded friends, it was found that Correspondent Neil, who nearly died of a chest hemorrhage in Ethiopia was suffering from 34 shrapnel wounds. A Catholic priest gave his blood for a transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil...