Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replacing a top section of an epileptic's skull with a piece of thick celluloid, Dr. Karl Winfield Ney claims to alleviate many cases of epilepsy. Last week Dr. Ney, 50, professor of neurosurgery at Manhattan's Homeopathic Medical College & Flower Hospital, told the Schenectady County Medical Society the why and how of his procedure...
...procedure, in which air is placed in the subdural space, will disclose such attachments and consequent stretching of the brain. In epileptics these unnatural attachments usually occur at the top of the skull. Dr. Ney cuts out the special section of bone, replaces the bone with a thick celluloid which the du Pouts make for him. The celluloid plate lowers the dome of the skull, prevents brain attachments, consequently prevents brain stretching. The operation is a plastic one. The scalp grows over the celluloid skull insert, which does not fracture, gives perfect brain protection...
...radio stars have been unable to resist the appeal of movie contracts, and Kate Smith, biggest of them all, has proved no exception. In appearing in "The Big Broadcast" and now in "Hello Everybody," she has proved the superiority of the other ever the celluloid as a medium of communication between a two hundred pound woman and the great American public...
Loudest Monarchist cheers greeted Count Eulenberg, leader of East Prussia's "Steel Helmets" (War Veterans). "The German Republic," said Count Eulenberg, "is like an African Negro who struts about in a high silk hat, celluloid cuffs and with a red parasol-thinking he's a civilized gentleman! . . . [Guffaws] There is no better capital investment, my friends, than a bright and shining sword [cheers]. . . . Bread comes through the sword...
...goods, ship to the U. S., pay a stiff tariff and still undersell the products of U. S. industry. Czechoslovakia, he cited, can lay down rubber boots in the U. S. at $1.16 a pair. They cannot be duplicated by the U. S. for less than $1.48. Japan sells celluloid combat $11.06 a gross against the best U. S. price of $25.86. Certain grades of European steel are so cheap that even if all labor cost was eliminated, U. S. steel mills could not compete, etc., etc., etc. The results, said Mr. Blythe, are closed factories and unemployment. Furthermore...