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...mayor's office we found a few of the living wounded that our soldiers had pulled out of the wreckage. On a wooden bench lay the thin form of a girl about ten years old. Her black hair was streaked with grey powder plaster. One of her legs was completely wrapped in bandages which our company had placed there. In her two hands she clutched a cracker which a soldier had given her. She didn't move, but only stared at the ceiling...
Together Burns and Keyser smoothed the G.F.T.'s kinks and adapted it to compute ranges for any powder charge and any weapon. Getting it accepted by the Army was slower work. Eventually Harry Burns was ready to give up; above his desk he pinned a bunch of red tape (to make himself feel at home) and slouched back to ruminate on horses. But Keyser kept rushing in where colonels feared to tread. Eventually he sold the War Department...
...showdown inspection" came a complete inventory of each soldier's belongings. Here, men lost any extra shirts or pants they might have snaffled, gained any replacements they needed. A set of impregnated (anti-gas) clothing was issued. Gas masks were carefully tested, decontamination powder and protective ointment supplied...
...Powder for the Future. Anheuser-Busch is now geared to produce millions of pounds a year. The process: 125 lb. of yeast is planted in a vat containing 7,000 gal. of water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food...
Stocky, down-to-earth James S. Adams, 45-year-old President of Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, etc.) last week announced that he would ask his 115,000 common stockholders to convert every four shares they now hold into one share of new stock. Brokers raised interested eyebrows: reverse splitting had hardly been heard of on Wall Street since the dog days after the 1929 crash, when some companies used it to give their collapsing shares some semblance of dollar value...