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Miss Curtis was not convinced. "Even with the window steps I found it practically impossible to get over the window ledge and roof projection without having my apparatus fall...
...Motley combined the nebulizer with a "cycling valve"-a sort of artificial breathing apparatus developed for the Air Force. With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics. The air passes through the nebulizer, picking up the drug mist. When the lungs are full, the valve goes into reverse and empties the stiffened lungs more thoroughly than the victim's breathing muscles...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...
...Shortly thereafter, TIME'S office telephones, which had been cut off in June on a thin technicality, were restored to service. However, something new had been added. Whenever you picked up a receiver, the racket of the wiretapping apparatus sounded like a pinball machine...
...Aboard. Numbed by "the dull ache of parting with my creditors," Traveler Perelman took off from New York carrying a machete, cummerbunds, maps, and "an apparatus for distilling seawater." First stop was a world-famous shrine in Camden, N.J. named Joe's Coffee Pot, where the plane was grounded. Second stop was Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare...