Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petitioning ended yesterday with 32 candidates running for seven Student Government offices. Nancy Fisher, Chairman of the Electoral Committee, predicted "an exciting and ingenious campaign" due to the interest shown in petitioning and the example set by the freshman campaign in the fall...
...white restaurants, or use the public library; and while the whites swim in the WPA-built pool, the colored folks, as the townspeople say, must "drown in the river." The schools have been separate as long as anyone can remember. Says Mrs. John C. Fisher, owner of the Cairo Citizen: "We've just never thought that this wasn't natural...
What was needed, obviously, was a "defibrillator." Until recently, no such thing existed, and at the time of Nurse Timke's operation last December, none had been used in Chicago. By good fortune, a member of Presbyterian's staff, Dr. Don Fisher, had built one for himself with $32 worth of electrical equipment. As the second hour of Nurse Timke's ordeal wore on, somebody in the operating room remembered Dr. Fisher's untried gadget...
...Fisher had kept his defibrillator sterilized, ready for just such an emergency. It was rushed to the operating room, another incision was made in the patient's chest, and the machine's two electrodes were placed on opposite sides of her heart. A doctor pressed a button and sent a 110-volt, 1½-ampere current shooting through the heart for just half a second. Shocked, the fluttering heart muscles jerked to a sudden stop. Then, to the vast relief of the doctors, the muscles began pulsing in a steady, even rhythm. Nurse Timke would live...
During the war years, chemists from outside the state began taking notice of Fisher's experimental substation near Lubbock. The first sample of 2,4,5-T for tests on mesquite ("just enough to put in your hat") was delivered to him in 1945 by Dow Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three...