Word: spanishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists...
...driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...
...Holy, and bloody, wars have been fought before: Crusades, the Japanese against Communism, the Spanish Catholic Church against Communism. But this war was being fought, as no war had ever been fought before, to keep a country together against the black forces of paganism. And it was up to 4,000,000 men aided by the indirect action of some Allies, to do the job. "The Army," said Edward Smigly-Rydz once, "is the national glue...
Straightforward military technological improvement has proceeded apace in some fields, especially the speed and versatility of tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...From the Spanish war came rumors of a new air bomb expressly designed not for demolition but to kill personnel. These German-made bombs were said to be light (6 to 60 Ib.) and relatively cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...