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...their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance in a French biplane of 1918, taking along the nearest things to bombs he can get-empty bottles, old boots, tin cans rolled up in a bag. When Pilot Quayle is shot down in the Greek retreat, it is Nitralexis and a wild mountaineer ("a fine boy if he doesn't kill us") who lead him to safety through the Italian lines and restore him to his Greek sweetheart, paying...
True, the activated charcoal-soda lime will stop the vapors of all war gases . . . from going through the orifice of the tin can, but it will not stop damage to the skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...
Sometimes the metal machines themselves get so hot they catch fire-apparently from gasoline fumes when the gas boils in the gas tanks. By late afternoon water carried in a tin can is almost too hot for hand washing...
...tin of fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
Fifty years before Tin Pan Alley became a business machine, the U.S. learned and sang its songs in rowdy taverns, stuffy parlors, minstrel shows, free-and-easies. It got many of them from anonymous buskers who worked for throw money, known only as "the old geezer with the dulcimer" or "the lame fellow who plays the accordion in Franklin Square." It bought most of its sheet music (words only) as penny broadsides, hawked by old men & women on street corners, or in dime songbooks. As the nation's customs, styles, manners and morals changed, so did its songs. Much...