Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worried. Seven other P-515 came down with me, so I pulled up alongside the big ship, lowered my flaps to slow down to his speed, and then noticed a big hole about three feet square on the bottom of the wing, with flames burning inside and eating the skin away. I cut in and told him that the aluminum was melting away on his wings, and the flames were beginning to break through...
...College and the University of the Witwatersrand, got interested in the native cause. In South Africa's Negro elections in 1938 she had four male opponents, all cocksure that she could not crack native prejudice. But she stumped the kraals (village stockades), talked through an interpreter to primitive, skin-clad audiences...
...killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
When his plane got up to altitudes of 15,000 ft. and over, Lieut. H. P. began to have muscular cramps. His skin crawled, and he was sick. A Fortress navigator, H. P. said nothing about this to the other men in the crew. But one day on a training flight he vomited; the pilot whirled the bomber back to base immediately...
...third-grade teachers of Harlem's drab, grey brick P.S. 119 took their children into the school yard for recess. One teacher played the piano while five little circles of Negro girls danced gaily. But nine-year-old Margaret Patton had a skin rash and sat alone on a bench. She was a well-behaved youngster - so well-behaved that she sometimes tattled to the teachers about other girls...