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...were firmly wedged in hard tissue. But in the past, use of internal splints has been restricted to slim wire to align broken bones in fingers, toes and arms. In such cases, outside splinting is also used and the mended bones are not required to withstand any end-to-end pressure. They call the rod technique "a daring operation" and wonder how their German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons at the hospital cautiously say they "have no opinion one way or another about this case." But they add that...
...farmers, Camp Fire Girls, scientists, sentimentalists-gathered in Baltimore last week for the third North American Wildlife Conference, welcomed news of the Des Plaines Valley experiment. Mosquito control was the subject of the conference's bitterest debate. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of Eastern and Southern States, which end-to-end would belt the world almost 2½ times, have dried away vegetation, starved wildlife. Said Audubon Societies' William Vogt: "Intelligently conceived, expertly prosecuted, adequately maintained, and completely justified mosquito control is as rare as the Eskimo curlew...
Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough...
...Traylor could never remember when he was first put to work. At six he was drying dishes in the family home on a Kentucky farm-two log cabins set end-to-end with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency...
Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...