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Curiously, breakage is no drawback: the quick-fingered people who get to be inspectors seldom drop things. In the rare accidents that befall even the quickest-fingered, a dropped steel gauge is useless until recalibrated; a glass gauge either breaks or is as good...
...very promising new treatment (not yet completely endorsed) is the injection of gold compounds into veins or muscles. This relieves from 48 to 80% of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, of whom 10% are wholly cured. Drawback: gold is somewhat poisonous to about 17% of all cases, and several people have died from it. Yet most of New York City's 25 arthritis clinics are now using gold-with medical caution and skill...
...operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system, or cylinder work, or wing repair. To help out, the Army plans to pull 50,000 tinker-minded soldiers out of U.S. camps by Oct. 15, ship them off to airline-operated schools. Most airline executives...
Nevertheless, the drawback is being compensated for by an arrangement whereby the Senior Album is to become a Harvard Album, with coverage of the whole College rather than just one class. A special combination price of Register and Album has been arranged for Freshmen...
...dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution on wounds before enclosing them in plaster. Apparently, said the scientists, the lactose provides...