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...Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, the operating room hummed with the efficient bustle of surgeons and nurses. On the table, her face covered by the anesthetic mask, Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra, 30, lay unconscious under .cyclopropane gas. She had just given birth by Caesarean section to a 5 Ib. 10 oz. baby girl. Then, without warning, came the flash and blast of an explosion in the anesthetic machine. The explosion knocked one of the doctors to the floor. But Mrs. Manfra took the worst of it. The blast seared through the anesthetic tube into her lungs. Within the hour she was dead...
...hospital (TIME, Feb. 18). As before, no one knew immediately just what touched off the gas, though static electricity at some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating...
...Valley Tool & Die Co. He bought a 74,780-lb. load of sheet steel from Weirton Steel's West Virginia mill at a price of $5.20 to $5.90 per hundredweight. After the steel was delivered, Phillips obligingly passed it on, at $7.50, to his brother Matthew in New Cumberland, W. Va., who promptly sold it for $9 to Isadore Forman, a Pittsburgh steel broker and "friend of the family...
Over the wires to its 30,000 offices and agencies in the U.S., Western Union last week tapped out an order: don't take any messages or money orders involving bets. The order came after a Cumberland, NJ. county court convicted Western Union and its branch manager, Charles H. Frake, 40, of "maintaining a disorderly house" (i.e., a place where illegal business is conducted). The state charged that W.U. broke a New Jersey law banning off-track horse-race betting by handling $300,000 in betting messages and money orders wired to out-of-state bookies. W.U. maintained that...
...Baker, president of the Cumberland Presbyterian School, said of the 59-year-old zoology professor's activities in the American Sunbathing Association: "That's right, the policy of that organization does not fit in with out church program. We don't fool with that kind of business...