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...bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf twice her weight in about 40 sec. (topnotch calf ropers rarely do it in less than...
...five hours after this proclamation was issued, the U. S. lived by the rules of traditional Neutrality. Plane makers continued to speed battle craft toward embarkation points for Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments to make.* Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to let this state of affairs sink in on Congress and the U. S. people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials...
...strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes before burns occur; lewisite burns immediately. But treatment for both is the same...
...incendiary bombs, military men favor thermite, a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder which burns at a temperature of 3,000° C. (about 5,400° F.). Thermite was known before, and used as an incendiary during World...
...these last cases the soul of Frank Murphy may be tested to the uttermost, for the political explosive in them is nitroglycerin, not common black powder as in New Orleans and Kansas City. Yet none of his friends suspects for a second that the soul of Frank Murphy will fail the test...