Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nearing completion in Moscow is a super-safe stratosphere balloon made of waterproof muslin. If something goes wrong at high altitude, the bag is designed to spread into the shape of a parachute, land men and equipment without damage...
...Societies for Experimental Biology about a hot box designed by Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton and President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Research Corp. From Dayton Dr. Simpson published a report in last week's American Journal of Surgery about his success with a hot water bag which Dr. Charles Robert Elliott of Seattle-San Francisco-&-Manhattan invented for treating the diseased female pelvis...
Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...
...Dominant Sex (by Michael Egan; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). In his lonely vigils as a seagoing radio operator, Playwright Egan has had ample opportunity to meditate the multiplicity of woman's wiles. Result is that he has practically cataloged in his first play the whole bag of tricks by which a woman gets her way. In fact, he has displayed them so conclusively that his audience is likely to feel that in awarding the final victory to his hero instead of to his heroine, Playwright Egan has turned in an extremely raw decision...
Ontario's cherished low power rates were Premier Hepburn's excuse for tearing up Hydro's contracts. If Hydro lived up to them, it would have to boost rates to carry the costs of the power it cannot sell. Since someone must hold the bag and there was no visible method of passing it to the opposition, the Premier decided that it should be held by the securities holders of the private companies...