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...would have to do it, because there is no commercial use for the big mirrors. When the call came they were ready, quietly went to work. The $600,000 Mariemont plant was started last September, six months later was completed. Without fuss or feathers red-faced Captain Frank H. Forney put it into production, soon had it turning out reflectors fast enough to forget the bottleneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineers' Mirrors | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

That scared Forney. He stepped on the gas, ignored the red lights, dodged cross-town traffic as best he could, hoped no policeman would stop him. None did. The man told Forney to take him to the Psychiatric Division. When they pulled up to the door with a screech, the meter read 95?. The man struggled with his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...bother with that now," protested Forney. "I'll get help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Forney ran outside. The face of the man in the cab was contorted, and he was groaning, writhing. Forney found a patrol man, but he advised Forney to drive to a police station. Forney did. The desk lieutenant called an ambulance. By the time it arrived, the man in the cab was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...week's end the hospital authorities announced that the nurse who rebuffed Hacker Forney had been suspended, pending an investigation. New York City's fiery, hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia declared grimly that he expected the findings of the investigators to be communicated to him with all speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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