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...atmosphere so simple to handle that little skill is needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...sketchbooks are filled with . . . an abundance of exciting shapes swimming over the pages, first one, then another, leaping to the eye and then vanishing like salamanders into flame...
...feet bombs blossomed from their racks, plummeted earthward, plunked into a 100-foot target circle with bright flashes, belches of flame and smoke. It was nice shooting. But the center of the target, a cloth-covered frame, still stood...
Present Laughter spins with the dalliances and divorces of a group of theater folk. They, like the play, are dominated by Garry Essendine (Coward), a charming, exhibitionistic, highly temperamental actor first glimpsed in a flame-colored dressing gown and lemon-yellow pajamas...
...Fires and the Death. By this time our planes were coming in one after the other, hitting targets all over the city. There were big scattered clouds of smoke and flame, some terrific block-long fires. One of the boys said he got an aircraft carrier in construction, that it rolled over right on the ways. Other planes were hitting Kobe, Yokohama and Osaka. They had orders not to bomb the Emperor's palace. Afterwards, from intelligence reports, we heard that more people were killed because of suffocation and inadequate dugouts than by flame or bombs...