Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after 442 hours of bleeding, Willie Cooke died, having taken a record 400 pints (232 of whole blood, 168 of plasma). Previous holder of the tragic record: Dallas' Hubert...
...desperation, the doctors appealed to the public. The response was almost overwhelming: in one week volunteers donated 311 pints. As fast as the blood could be processed, it was transfused into Hubert Harris' veins, while doctors tried to halt the bleeding with blood-clotting platelet concentrates. In all, Harris got 160 transfusions (20 gals.) of whole blood, about 20 times the amount of blood in the average man's body...
...used his expense account to replace his single-pen set with a two-pen set. Within four days all five worked their way up to three-pen sets. Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets. A big Chicago oil company caused a major crisis a few years ago when it bought a new type of posture chair to test on a few of its executives. Those left out were so miserable that one man, to save face, bought...
Virtually unnoticed by the press in the flood of first day Senate bills rests an outline of new rules for committee investigations. Throughout the last few years the actions of several notorious committees have shown that the fine print of a few procedural rules are needed to halt the two-inch headlines of unrestrained chairmen. The abuses of McCarthy, Velde, and Recce, among others, are so well known--holding one-man hearings unknown to other committee members, summoning witnesses under false pretenses, restricting the full advice and support of witness' counsel--that the new bill of Senator Thomas Hennings deserves...
...capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than in any year during Germany's pre-World War I heyday of Latin American trading. Items: