Word: hagerstown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...
Pack Rat. In Hagerstown, Md., a few hours after Chester Delauney had been released from Washington County Jail, he was rearrested and charged with stealing a blanket, a mattress cover, 15 cakes of soap and two brushes from his cell...
Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
Examination of 8,657 Hagerstown school children revealed that 479 little boys and 86 little girls had ringworm. After trying hair pulling and 17 different salves, doctors finally brought the epidemic under control. Most effective method: an ointment made of salicylanilide. Daily rubbings-on for two months cured 57% of the first test group; a later test cured...
...shrewd detective work, an altogether different explanation was found: boys get ringworm in barbershops. The P.H.S. men noticed that 65% of the boys' scalp infections were in the "clipper area." Following up the clue, they learned that, sure enough, barbers' clippers (also combs, brushes and scissors) in Hagerstown barbershops were heavily infected...