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When the hose was finally screwed in, it sprung two leaks and scattered spray over 50 more students. Then a tank burst open in another truck and flooded the front seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Wrestle Tiny Blaze In Chimney as Mob Exults | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...gadget-gift field is by far the biggest--and easiest to shop. Any store contains enough perfume, of various and assorted smells, to drown in, and the salesgirls will be happy to spray you with drams of it. But unless you know your girls taste in scents, stay away from heavy, dramatic perfumes and pick light brands--or she may trade it to her roommate for a chocolate bar without nuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Tips to Shoppers Puzzled What To Give (Him, Her) | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...business. With a veteran's often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Just last week, Captain Midnight was engaged in subduing a character called "the Sword," who was preparing to set fire to military installations with inflammable spray. It was evident that the Sword was in the pay of some agency hostile to the United States, but the script never get beyond mysterious references to "they," and a rendezvous in South America...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

When the underwater bomb was exploded in the second atomic test at Bikini, nine ships were sunk. Most of the other 67 seemed to have escaped with only a drenching of radioactive spray. But the spray has proved more lethal than the bomb itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Creeping Death | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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