Word: mask
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...raids, do not take pets to public shelters for human beings; leave them in special gasproof kennels, hutches, stables, pounds. You can buy a pet a fancy gas mask, but you can't make him wear it. - Every residential street has an "animal guard," who is not expected to be in the street while bombs are dropping, but who tends injured animals immediately afterward. After a raid, do not touch wounded pets-they may have mustard gas on them. Call an animal guard or use an R. S. P. C. A. Cat-&-Dog Grasper (long handle with adjustable noose...
When the Marquis de Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery...
Week after World War II got under way last September the U. S. Army decided to do something about its gas-mask situation. To bolster its own gas-mask assembly plant at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal it asked U. S. manufacturers to bid on a new assembly plant to turn out masks for Army use. Winners of three contracts were not among the nine U. S. commercial gas-mask makers. They were Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rub ber Co., and Johnson & Johnson, biggest U. S. surgical-dressing maker...
...Fall River, Mass., the second gas mask maker (Firestone) is also at work under a $328,329 contract virtually identical with Johnson & Johnson's. Furthest advanced of all is the third maker, Good year, expected to swing into production within a week at Akron, Ohio, where it will turn out 5,000 masks...
...people were worried, the Government kept its mask of complacency. But signs of official nervousness showed in announcements that henceforth all news dispatches, as well as mail to and from Russia, would be subject to the censor's shears. For eight months foreign correspondents had been sending their copy out at will...