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...partial protection, for they attack men's bodies, produce ghastly burns. (Lewisite may also cause death from arsenic poisoning.) Helpers of the lethal gases are the sneeze, tear and vomiting gases. Used as harassing agents, they make men work in masks over long periods. Men who get a whiff of the harassing gases before they get on their masks, have to take them off, are then wide open to the killers that may follow...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
Joan Fontaine's performance as the young Mrs. Winter provides a wholesome whiff of sincerity in an atmosphere laden with sleazy pluto-romanticism. The other characters--including grave, moustached Mr. Oliveir--are the stereotyped masks which haunt every unsuccessful attempt at fiction. Readers of Miss Dumaurier's novel will notice to their amusement that under Mr. Hays' jurisdiction a husband does not shoot his wife, and that villains do not get away with their crimes as if there were neither justice nor morals in Hollywood...
Last week utility investors got a whiff of further equity offerings to come. Answering SEC's demand for an integration plan, far-flung Standard Gas & Electric announced "partial compliance." It proposed to sell control of its properties in California and the Northwest to holders of (and in exchange for) its own notes and debentures, thus freeing three subsidiaries, retiring part of its debt, reducing its own size. Last month SECommissioner Mathews accepted a job with the Standard Gas system because Standard's management had convinced him that it was trying to comply with the spirit of the Holding...
...only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy...