Word: shrapnel
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...Shrapnel...
...wounded men, told that he would lose his sight, cried out, "Then I want to see Il Duce before I go blind!" During the World War, when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis, King Vittorio Emanuele came to his hospital bedside. Last week the Dictator hurried to the wounded man who had asked...
...spies, who now become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
...conditioners for home and office are comparatively new. Industrial air conditioning was used during the War when munition makers found it advisable to keep their plants at medium humidity while making powder for shrapnel shells. Rayon manufacturers are heavy users of air conditioning because rayon is highly sensitive to moisture at every stage of manufacture. Big candy makers use conditioners to keep the air dry since chocolate becomes dull and grey, loses its smooth dark lustre when exposed to moisture. Air conditioners for factories, theatres, stores are almost in variably basement installations where the air is cooled and washed...
...Shrapnel. The publishers fired a blast at the proposed Newsprint Code which, they insisted, "is a monopoly, make no mistake about it"; shot at the Post Office Department for its contention that newspapers are largely responsible for the heavy deficit on second-class mail; proposed coinage of a 3?-piece to make it simpler to sell 3? newspapers; re-elected Howard Davis, plump business manager of the New York Herald Tribune, as president; went home...