Word: carlsbad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Winner of a scrap-collecting contest for New Mexico schoolchildren was Connie Davis, 13, of Carlsbad. California Shipbuilding Corp. readied the prize: a girl's wrist watch, a chance to christen the Liberty ship Archbishop Lamy. Then someone discovered Connie...
Millions of bats of all kinds, chiefly Free-tailed or Guano Bats from Mexico, make their winter home in Carlsbad Cavern and neighboring caves in New Mexico...
...Sergeant who worked the radio . .. was Joe Stanley Smith, and he was a New Mexican. Joe Stanley got his nose broken playing soldier with his older brother at the age of four. He grew up muscular, and he was all the neighbors' friend. The people of Carlsbad used to send for Joe Stanley when there was a drowning in the Pecos River, and Joe Stanley would go and swim strongly and take out the body. He had a big black dog, he liked to dance and he would box with anyone just for fun. He married a girl whose...
...common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...
...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...