Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frog breathing increases the time which patients can spend outside the iron lung. Before learning the technique, one group of eleven patients at Rancho Los Amigos was able to remain outside their respirators for an average of only 4½ minutes. After mastering it, their average time jumped to 4½ hours. Frog breathing gives patients a big psychological boost, also enables them to cough, ending a small but maddening frustration that besets the paralyzed who feel the throat irritation but cannot relieve it, and it allows them to speak audibly...
...Colvilles, Dorman Long, Lancashire Steel, Stewarts and Lloyds, United Steel, Whitehead Iron and Steel, and John Summers & Sons...
...jobs where they can carry responsibility and to give me more time for policy matters and long-range planning." Eastern's new president is Thomas F. Armstrong, 51, treasurer and secretary since 1938, who joined the airline as an apprentice bookkeeper in 1928. But as chief executive officer, iron-fisted Rickenbacker is still the real boss...
...suppressing a twinge of suspicion, Von Papen agreed to be Hitler's Minister to Vienna. There he tried to conquer Austria for the Nazis "peacefully," by organized sabotage and propaganda. After four years, Hitler stopped Von Papen's slow choke with the velvet glove and swung his iron fist. Although he says Hitler had promised him not to use force in Austria, Von Papen shared the "general intoxication" of the Anschluss and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Nazi Party for his efforts...
...Negro slum of Monmouth, down by the river. He had been brought up by Aunt Abbie Crunch, a former schoolteacher and a lady of almost painful rectitude. But Bill Hod had been an even greater influence than Abbie. Hod was the Negro owner of the Last Chance, a coldblooded, iron-fisted racketeer who paid Link's way. through college and wised him up to life. The trouble began when Camilo, Mrs. Treadway's daughter, met Link down at the docks one foggy night. He was handsome and intelligent. Camilo was bored and unhappily married to dull Captain Sheffield...