Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago 8, Philadelphia...
Last week three Chicago holders of one of these issues (for $1,400,000) filed a petition against Ben Bendix in South Bend, Ind. (home of Bendix Aviation Corp.) asserting that his debts amounted to $3,000,000, his assets about $500,000. Said Bendix, sadly: "This is the biggest blow of my life...
...Chicago & North Western Railway Co. made its counsel, methodical Fred Wesley Sargent, its president and operating head. Last week, 63 and ailing, lawyer-railroader-gentleman Farmer Sargent resigned, having in 14 years seen the North Western win seven national rewards for safe operation...
...when abnormally acid, erodes the delicate lining of the stomach, produces inflamed spots near its lower end. To experimenters who have long been seeking an easily available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts, "are very potent in inhibiting gastric secretion" of dogs. What the inhibiting agent of urine was, they could not say, nor did they venture to predict...
Last week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest...