Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steam from an exploding locomotive had scalded Fireman Frank Mihlan of the Erie Railroad. When he was carried into Cleveland's Charity Hospital on July 15, doctors thought that he had little chance of living: 70% of his body was burned. Erie Surgeons decided to try something new. They wrapped the patient in bandages made from paper-thin strips of aluminum foil, developed by Toronto's Dr. Alfred W. Farmer. It was the first time aluminum foil for burns had been used in the U.S., the first time it had ever been used for burns of the whole...
Samples of what they called "animal protein factor" have been tried out on patients at Western Reserve University's hospital in Cleveland. Two aged women, extremely ill with pernicious anemia,' responded as well as patients respond to liver extract. The discovery is important. For the first time, a laboratory has produced from commonly occurring bacteria a substance with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein...
During the war Republic operated the plant for the Defense Plant Corp., after the war continued to operate it under an interim lease. The WAA plant supplied iron for Republic's Cleveland mills and that, in turn, made it possible for Republic to sell pig iron from its other blast furnaces to hundreds of Northeastern foundries. With a defense program on, White did not think that the Government would disturb this complex setup...
...twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's largest...
...continuous caster is the offspring of a marriage between a steel producer and a user. Cleveland's Republic Steel Corp. did the first research, then got the boiler-making Babcock & Wilcox Co. to solve the enigma of high-speed transfer of heat. Republic, which has millions tied up in conventional equipment, holds that the revolution is still far off, but has agreed to license the process to anyone who wants...