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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision. . . ." Beneath the static military crust, new tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into...
...carrying in her mouth a dollar bill, which she pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only clue was that Dumpy's snout was dirty, her paws muddy...
Adults who have been struck by lightning (see p. 18), overcome by carbon monoxide, shocked by an electric current, or submerged under water as long as half an hour, can often be "brought to life" again. Essential treatment is immediate and continuous artificial respiration. This month's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal cites the case of a young lineman who was shocked by 26,000 volts, received immediate treatment by trained fellow-workmen, and after eight hours of unconsciousness began to breathe normally. "The only really safe plan," said the Journal, "is to continue efforts until rigor...
...pain would make patients forget their aching joints. Modern doctors put the bee on patients more scientifically, first anesthetizing an arthritic joint with ethyl chloride, then applying artificial stings. Seventy-three out of 100 cases in New York Hospital were improved, said Dr. Jacques Kroner and associates in Current Medical Digest last month. Most of the cases showing no improvement were of long standing...
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