Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...
...England, at Liverpool, Dr. William Blair Bell, Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Liverpool, has been treating cancer patients by injecting into their veins a certain amount of metallic lead in a very fine state of suspension, a so-called colloidal lead. He has treated 250 patients. Of these 50, or one out of five, showed improvement. The solution is very unstable; keeps only 48 hours; cannot be transported. Patients must be hospitalized and kept under exceptionally expert supervision. Dr. Wood reported...
...that the remedy is extremely dangerous; that the drug is difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and therefore for the present must be handled only by those who are familiar with its use. This means that all patients who desire to avail themselves of this treatment must go to Liverpool and place themselves under the care of the group of physicians who have familiarized themselves with the symptoms which indicate whether a patient can stand a sufficient dose to affect the tumor...
...cancer died recently Beatrix Hamilton Leacock, who married in 1900 Stephen Butler Leacock, professor of political economy at McGill University, Montreal. Far gone with the disease, she had journeyed to Liverpool to enlist the colloidal lead solution treatment of Professor William Blair Bell. But he could do her no good. She was one of the 250 he ministered to, one of the 200 he could not benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come...
...During my last trip to England and Scotland, from which I returned October 24," Writes Dr. Meiklejohn, "I attended the Conference of the Labor Party at Liverpool, and the annual meeting for the drafting of the Labor policy. The party expressed its determined opposition to communism, and the meeting was described almost unanimously by the British press as indicating the complete return of Ramsay McDonald to control and leadership...