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What emerged from this tussle with paper and pencil is a startling but not unhandsome combination of a fencer's mask and a Rube Goldberg ashtray...
...City Falls. More & more, bright plywood replaced Warsaw's windowpanes. In the food lines, faces were sleepless and remote, and bitter quarrels broke out. Rulka saw a dead, horse in the street, stripped of its meat save for the haggard mask and stockings of hide. In a patch of grass at a street crossing, she found a little grave. At the foot was a glass with , two or three flowers in it. At the head was an amateur cross to which was thumbtacked a visiting card...
...current newsreel, The Mask of Japan, reveals for the first time, to my visual knowledge, Toyama in person, leading thousands of Japs, and a score of Nazis, in cheering for the Emperor. It is perhaps the only sound track of Toyama's voice...
...actual demonstration of the many complicated emergency devices was supervised by Captain James Kennedy of the Boston Fire Department. Among the pieces of apparatus he explained were a block for raising El cars to release persons pinned underneath, the gas mask and its proper use, and a combination inhalator-resuscitator to be used in cases where artificial respiration is needed. He claimed that this machine was far superior to manual resuscitation and gave several examples of miraculous recoveries from...
...grizzled, hard-bitten veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like...