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...geraniums and is a blistering gas, the blisters appear about 15 minutes after the dark brown liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...
Last week, after 19 years of baseball, during which he tried to conceal his intellectual background, Catcher Berg at last removed his mask. Quitting the game he loved even more than his books, Morris Berg, A.B., LL.D, accepted a Government appointment as roving envoy to Mexico and Central America-a good-will post created by the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics...
...students of Harvard and Radcliffe and Faculty and staff members and their families, were introduced to "What An Air Raid Warden Is Supposed to Do" by Mrs. DeRoth, a former warden of Chelsea, in London. Mrs. DeRoth were the uniform of Chelsea wardens including the steel helmet and gas mask. Remarking on the idealized conceptions of proper equipment for wardens, she said, "We used to hope the war would be over before we got all our equipment...
...drudgery, guarding a stretch of the California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing...
...have been impressed and encouraged by ... [finding] an Olympian fortitude which, far from being based upon complacency, is only the mask of an inflexible purpose and the proof of a sure, well-grounded confidence in the final outcome...