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...materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face and two holes are cut in it; one for the powder-puff cover (to look through), one for the tin-can respirator. The ends...
...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...
Rimsky-Korsakov. In Moscow the wounds seemed more like things of the past than of the imminently fearful present. Factory girls still twined flowers in their hair. Water carts sprinkled streets deep with dust under a cloudless sky. Mobile soda fountains sold charged water for 30 kopecks. A lathe worker poked at tobacco plants in his spare-time garden plot, wondered if he would be lucky in a new national lottery in which each worker was asked to spend 10% of his salary. Tousle-haired children in costume played in the parks. A baboon escaped from the Moscow...
Coca-Cola sales the first quarter of 1942 were only 4% below last year, but higher costs and taxes cut profits 37% to $4,649,000, lowest since 1937. But soda-pop makers outside the U.S. have few such troubles: in the five months ended May 31, Panama Coca-Cola cleared $257,000, almost double the previous year...
Selling all sorts of conventional summer needs from bathing suits to antiperspiration creams, drug stores are feeling a big part of the boom. The demand for women's cosmetics and notions is especially great. And at the soda fountains, if students keep drinking at their present rate, they will probably set an all-time record...