Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pretty, 23-year-old Mrs. Virginia Mathers Matthews, her legs and chest crippled by infantile paralysis, has been kept alive for the last month in an iron lung. Last week, in Los Angeles County General Hospital, she gave birth to a spanking 6 Ib. 3 oz. boy. Drs. Dan Golenternek and Nathan Spishakoff delivered her child in 13 minutes without drugs, anesthetics or forceps. During this time she was out of the lung, wore an oxygen mask. Mrs. Matthews was the third iron-lung patient in North America to have a baby. Hers is the first case in which both...
...young men of 77 showed the world that they are not superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...
...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...
...Quick were Army Air Corps officers to say that the U. S. sight was still a U. S. secret. But none doubted that German ingenuity had developed a bombing sight for World War II that was modern, scientific, accurate. Typical level-flight bomber in the medium range (24,900 Ib. fully loaded) is the sleek, two-engined Heinkel He. in K which carries a crew of four, makes bombing a highly coordinated job for two men, the pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that were trying to soften up Britain with intensified...
...Washington to be educated by Secretary of War Stimson. In Army headquarters in the rambling wartime Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision the necessities of the U. S.'s No. 1 modern military crisis...