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...while wearing a pair of rubber panties for a gas mask [TIME, Sept. 7]. The average rubber pant is of similar thickness to a surgeon's rubber glove; it is well known that these gloves become dangerous to wear after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister on bare skin may spread through the entire rubber surface...
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...
...last week. The New York Times reported flatly one morning that Franklin Roosevelt had asked Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone of the U.S. Supreme Court to make an investigation and give the nation the facts. Justice Stone's picture hovered momentarily on the front page, then dissolved into vapor. President Roosevelt had talked to him-but not about an investigation...
...more the world's makers of air-cooled aircraft engines had pondered one problem: how to fabricate strong cylinder heads cheaply. Even the best cylinder heads sometimes cracked under prolonged stress. Heads have two functions: to withstand the tremendous pressures generated by the cylinder's air-gas vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird...
...mercury "bomb" is spot-welded to one cathode and is exploded by heat applied just before the fluorescent tube is sealed, thus releasing mercury vapor into the argon-filled lamp. Twofold result, claimed by Hygrade Sylvania: 1) stable performance of every tube; 2) savings of up to 50% of mercury previously wasted...