Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to latest theory, said Dr. Cloward, unconsciousness is caused by microscopic changes in the brain cells; these changes occur when the brain is rapidly jogged out of place, at a speed of at least 23 feet per second. A heavy blow moves the head, displaces the brain, causes injuries over its entire surface. Shell splinter wounds, said the doctor, did not cause unconsciousness because the fragments traveled at such terrific speed that "the head was struck, perforated and penetrated before the brain as a whole had time to be set into motion...
...Crosby find of the season, Danish Comedian Victor Borge, produced some delayed-action gags at the piano. Bing got back in the big American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials...
This was a body blow to the farm bloc. Screamed one Southern Congressman: "The President, by executive announcement, has repealed the safeguards in the price-control bill...
...down Major Bowes to a half-hour (CBS, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.); Lipton's Tea canceled Helen Hayes after Feb. 1 (CBS, Sunday 8 p.m. E.S.T.); then the Ford Motor Co. canceled the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), effective March 1. This was a grievous blow, and radiomen looked for more to follow...
...operators, but shippers, will feel this blow worst. In normal years the Canal route carried 1,486,000 tons of lumber, 1,223,000 tons of foodstuffs from the Pacific Coast, 1,221,000 tons of steel products from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. To move all this over land will take 17,500 railroad cars, and the railroads are already under strain...