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Resembling an outsized insecticide spray gun, the Army's weapon can project a 60-yard-long, rodlike flame or a 25-yard-long, billowing blaze to cover a wider area...
...nude white dolls are turned into storybook characters in a 40,000-sq.-ft. factory in San Francisco, where most of the work runs like Chevrolet's prize production line. The dolls move in a steady stream from spray-painting (a healthy suntan), through face-painting, hair-cementing (British mohair-blond, gold, auburn or brunette) etc., to a score of high-school girls who specialize, after school hours, in putting on panties, and then to the final dresses. But the sewing room is not so easy to manage. Even though Nancy Ann rotates sewing jobs so that every worker...
...prevent colds, Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Tzvee N. Harris used propylene glycol vapor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942) last winter to spray the air of six wards containing 105 children at the Children's Seashore House in Atlantic City. While the wards were being sprayed, three children came down with colds. While the wards were unsprayed, 79 got colds...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
...prevent the infections which often follow colds, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors have developed a sulfadiazine spray. Of two groups of nurses, one used the spray; the other group was untreated. Only 9.7% of the sprayed nurses got sinus trouble, 8% wound up with coughs, 1.8% had ear trouble, none got laryngitis or sore throats. Of the unsprayed nurses, 30% developed sinus trouble, 44% had coughs, 4.5% had ear trouble, 2.3% lost their voices and 10% got sore throats...