tailieunhanh - Poisoned Air

A telephone bell jangled insistently. The orderly on duty dropped his feet from the desk to the floor and lifted the receiver with a muttered curse. "Post hospital, Aberdeen Proving Ground," he said sleepily, rubbing his eyes. A burst of raucous coughing answered him. Several times it ceased for an instant and a voice tried to speak, but each time a fresh spasm of deep-chested wracking coughing interrupted. "Who is this?" demanded the now aroused orderly. "What's the matter?" Between intervals of coughing difficultly enunciated words reached him. "This is—uch! uch!—Lieutenant Burroughs at the—uch!—Michaelville range. We have been—uch!—caught in a. | feedboo is Poisoned Air Meek Sterner St. Paul Published 1932 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Source http etext 29069 1 About Meek Sterner St. Paul Meek April 8 1894 Chicago Illinois - June 10 1972 was a US military chemist early science fiction author and children s author. He published much of his work first as Capt. . Meek then briefly as Major . Meek and after 1933 as Col. S. P. Meek. He also published one story as Sterner St. Paul. Meek received his Associate degree from University of Chicago in 1914 and his Bachelor s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Alabama in 1915. He continued his education at University of Wisconsin-Madison 1916 and MIT 1921-1923 . He married in 1927 and had one son. When the United States entered World War I in 1917 Meek joined the military as a chemist and ordnance expert. He served as Chief Small Arms Ammunition Research in 1923-1926 and Chief Publications Officer Ordnance Dept. in 1941-1945. He retired a colonel in 1947 at which point he became a full time writer. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Meek Giants on the Earth 1932 Copyright Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and or check the copyright status in your country. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes.