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...spasm, the stretched muscles and other muscles all over the body are also in spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve impulses that prevent involuntary contraction; 3) the paralysis, which may be permanent, results when contraction impulses fail to get through...
...normally harrowing character of his cases, Dr. Newman is seldom surprised. One case: called to deliver a Negro woman's eleventh child, Dr. Newman found that its grandmother had already been tugging at the child for five hours with her bare hands, had broken the umbilical cord and, gory to the elbows, was digging for the placenta when he arrived. Dr. Newman gave the mother sulfanilamide, offered a grim prognosis and went home. A week later the patient walked into his office, boomed: "Doctor, please give me some medicine to keep me from breeding so fast...
...embarkation was a nightmare of hurry and numbers and weariness. The train had marked the real departure, the breaking of the cord, the physical moving off of the visible men. The ship lay quiet, a stolid appendage to the pier. Even when she moved into the stream, she moved as a ship, an iron entity anonymous and impersonal. The men hardly knew they were leaving...
Rough-&-tumble Rubber Czar Jeffers thought he had settled the question last October. At the War Department's request he has bulled through most of his program to expand U.S. rayon cord capacity 100,000,000 lb. annually (to a total of 200,000,000 lb.). He was all set to use rayon cord in all medium and heavy synthetic tires for the Army. To the outraged protests of cotton Senators (who called Jeffers before the Senate's Agricultural Committee) Jeffers gave a flat answer: the Army wanted rayon; the Army was going to get it. Army tests...
Slipshod tests had been conducted, the Committee reported, under the auspices of military men drafted from the Big Four rubber companies. But even these tests had proved "cotton cord the equal of rayon in most sizes of synthetic rubber tires in the latest tests. Rayon has displayed no superiority over cotton to warrant the great investment in critical materials now being made to produce facilities for rayon cord...