Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newsmen sensed a new threat to the Fourth Estate when Detroit's police commissioner said that press cards would be issued only to those...
...drinking," and later he joined the Free Press. As editorial director, Bing masterminded a story on an American Legion parade that won five Free Press reporters the Pulitzer prize. He began a daily column, "Good Morning," composed of topical comment, literary notes and bad puns. Later, when Detroit went pennant-crazy over its 1934 baseball team, he wrote a sports column as "Iffy the Dopester." Loaded with literary allusions and folksy idiom, the "Iffy" columns became a Detroit craze. There were Iffy clubs, cocktails and cushions, and the column now appears on the editorial page...
...year-old Detroit woman was being treated for asthma and bronchitis with penicillin. One day a nurse gave her a routine injection of 50,000 units. Within a few seconds the patient complained of a strange taste in her mouth, and of swelling and tightness in her throat and nose. She itched all over, and turned blue in the face. Then, as she was asking for a glass of water, she collapsed and died...
...case was reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Detroit Allergist George L. Waldbott. For 18 years Dr. Waldbott has been studying cases of fatal shock following shots of serums. The Detroit woman, he explains, was accidentally pierced in a vein (instead of a muscle) by the hypodermic needle. The penicillin was absorbed too rapidly into a system already sensitized to penicillin by previous injections...
Mobilhome Corp. has turned out 361 houses from its Bakersfield and San Jose "factories," has unfilled orders for 113 more and is still expanding. Kern plans to license additional factories in Sacramento, Stockton, Palo Alto, Reno, Milwaukee, Detroit and probably Chicago...