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Clothing Test Methods, Edited by L.H. Newburgh (Physiological Tests) and Milton Harris (Physical Tests) of Subcommittee on Clothing of the National Research Council (U.S.A.) (1945) / Chapter Skim
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Standardization of Clothing (Talbott)
Pages 45-46

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... If the subject is engaged in physical activity, sufficiently strenuous to simulate a soldier in an engineer battalion building a bridge or a soldier pulling a sledge in the snow, the mitten may provide sufficient protection for several hours and the tolerance time will be increased to 4 or 6 hours. A second factor which increases tolerance time for a particular item is the insulation provided for the remainder of the body.
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  • wore service
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  • subject wore
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  • engineer battalion
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  • shoes available

  • wearing clothes
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  • stove lias
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  • service shoes


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