When demand shot up in the cold weather, firms could not import enough gas and had almost nowhere to store it anyway.

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With help from her husband Louis, she made the connection: Combining vibration and cold might be enough to ease the pain of a shot.

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The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.

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