Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locked deep in Widener's expansive hulk lie a red cardboard package tied with red silk cord, and a long wooden box, painted brown. Thereby hangs a tale...
...South Bend plant Bendix makes brakes for Ford, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Packard, Hudson, Nash, Cord, Auburn; carburetors for Ford, Nash, General Motors, Hudson, Chrysler, Plymouth, Studebaker; other parts for many another U. S. automobile. Last week Bendix could supply none of these customers. Two U. S. Department of Labor conciliators met with Bendix and union representatives to thrash out the differences, interrupted their week-long conferences only to go to the Notre Dame-Northwestern football game...
...advised Dr. Stookey, "never lift the head of an injured person until he has told you whether he can move his legs or hands. If he cannot move his legs, his back is broken. If he cannot move his hands, his neck is broken. In both cases the spinal cord is injured. If you lift his head to give him a drink of water or if you fold him up to carry him, you inevitably grind the injured spinal cord between parts of the broken vertebrae and destroy any useful remnant of the cord which may have escaped injury...
When the back is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on to a blanket so that he rests face downward. When the blanket is lifted, the victim's back sags, thus making him sway-back and removing pressure from the spinal cord...
...team-one at the victim's head, another at his feet, the others at each hip. While those at the hips lift and carry, the others gently pull and carry. The traction at head and feet holds the vertebrae apart and prevents them from grinding against the injured cord...