Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lasting two days, it brought together 55 prime contractors holding over $3,000,000,000 in defense orders and about 1,200 would-be subcontractors. Like its 50-odd-predecessors, the clinic's procedure was convention-like: registration, handshakes, conferences, cigars. But the atmosphere was far more serious. To many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head...
...dollars-&-cents contracts signed on the spot, the big New York clinic (like its predecessors) was not worth the trouble. But it served another purpose: contacts and confidence...
...they had known about a new last-minute treatment that, if it lives up to its promise, will provide quick relief. In the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Ernest J. Elsbach of Manhattan told of his experiments with a germ-brewed soothing substance at the Vanderbilt Clinic...
...Vanderbilt Clinic, and from reports of the same treatment throughout the U.S., Dr. Elsbach has observed the reactions of 75 patients of all ages. Results: 53 cases were cured, 21 improved; only one stubborn patient kept on sneezing...
Last week round-faced Dr. George Washington Crile formally unveiled in his Cleveland Clinic a stupendous museumful of stuffed animals and a new physiological theory. The museum was completed last March when Dr. Crile went to Miami, hired a Goodyear blimp, wandered cloudlike over the blue Gulf Stream in search of a manatee. When he at last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years...