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...germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days the serum was siphoned of, stored in a refrigerator ready for use. Antitoxin horses are bled once a month, are permitted to rest, feed well between times. No matter how old they become, they are useful for antitoxin so long as they are healthy...
...head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted tones back to normal. The "scram-bled speech" invention is already used by five transatlantic radio telephone channels. Bell Telephone Laboratories' staff of researchers-3,000 scientists and engineers-is now working on refinements, hopes soon to finish...
Schmeling hit Sharkey in the mouth, mashed his lip against a tooth so that it bled. Sharkey spat the blood out contemptuously, stabbed Schmeling with long lefts, shook him with short rights. In the next round Schmeling, clearly outboxed and looking much smaller than Sharkey (he was 9 Ib. lighter) landed less often. Sharkey hit him hard, punching from every angle. Repeatedly Schmeling set himself to throw his only effective punch, a short, straight right to the jaw. Repeatedly Sharkey threw him off balance, mixed him up, hurt him. In the third round Sharkey hit him hard four times...
Story of Downey's Doctor: The slain man must have been standing when shot, suggesting that the speedboat was stopped when fired upon. He said that Downey had bled to death because the guardsmen had not called for help or administered first aid. While they loitered, city police summoned an ambulance and a fire truck, hoisted the inert 200-lb. Downey out of the launch...
Last week when a non-union worker attempted to move into one of these shanties, strikers blocked his way. County Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies rushed the strikers. Stones flew. Pates were cracked. Noses bled. Sheriff Adkins swore out 148 warrants for "riot, insurrection and rebellion against the constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict...