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...bath, several attendants busily remove loosened, burned tissue and wash unharmed skin with soap and water. This procedure may take three hours. But it is worth while, for it tends to prevent infection, which causes the greatest trouble in healing burns. For three days after the bath, attendants spray the raw patient with tannic acid solution and dry him with warm air from an ordinary barbershop blower- all this to toughen his exterior and thus keep out germs. Dr. Wells said that his method was especially successful after burns from gasoline explosions and ignited clothing, and extensive scalds...
Last week in New York their two-months-old Deodorizer Co. was doing a thriving business. An alert staff stood by, ready to rush and spray at any hour. They can make a valerianated room habitable in 12 hr., destroy 98% of the odor in 24 hr., all of it in two or three days. Racketeering bombers were keeping them busy at the rate of a dozen or two bombings a week. More & more manufacturers were seeking their services. Lloyd's of London recommended them to clients insured against malicious mischief...
...20th annual International Flower Show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, quietly watching record crowds mill around the long tables of orchid exhibits. He watched the orchids, bright and delicate, crumple slowly after four days in the crowd's breath. Now & then he eyed particularly a spray of big plum-striped orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize...
Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating...
...United States) the major civil war in which nearly 100,000 Brazilians are engaged (TIME. Aug. 8, 15) dragged on and on. At Pittsburgh, Pa. five Cadillac eights were being armor plated by Armstrong Motor Body Co. "for a South American president" who is having the Cadillacs equipped to spray tear gas and machine gun bullets...