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Arts & Crafts. In Hollywood, tragediennes started considering retirement: war had produced a shortage of menthol spray, which had produced tears. In the same town, Producing Artists, Inc. devised the first invisible movie title-just a long, admiring whistle on a sound track...
...vehicle staging area (Armyese for any place where troops and supplies are readied for overseas), women workers grinned through their grease. With spray gun and grease gun. the women coated the glass of vehicles destined for deck load so no warning reflection would betray the convoy, smeared the underparts for protection against salt spray. They drained gas tanks and radiators, checked and charged batteries, sealed all engine openings...
...constant temperature. Because of its safety, the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission use it exclusively on ships and submarines. Then last May the Surgeon General's office showed up with a malarial mosquito-killer called an aerosol, publicized as the "mosquito bomb." The "Mosquito Bomb" is a spray gun holding about one pound of insecticide...
...Naval Unit's experiments, mice inhaled a fine spray of specially treated horse serum and then received large doses of mouse-influenza organisms in their noses. The mice proved immune to influenza and stayed that way about six days. The doctors think that the Russian method is successful because it puts influenza antibodies (blood elements which fight the disease) where they are needed...
This raid was only one of many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...