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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally called pelota (ball) and played with the bare hand against church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana...
...chin. Four years ago he violated medical taboo, trusted no one more than himself to operate on his wife. When his young son died, with steady hand Professor Babcock performed the autopsy. Last week Dental Survey described a striking operation which Dr. Babcock originated for pushing forward a receding lower jaw, giving a patient a firmer looking profile than he was born with...
...skull), pushed the upper end of the jaw forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said the Survey. "The patient masticated food...
...Tennessee, Commonwealth & Southern Corp. is trying to escape TVA's punishing competition by selling out. Commonwealth's President Wendell Willkie wants to sell his integrated properties in one batch; TVA Director David Lilienthal wants to buy them piecemeal, using the threat of municipal competition with lower power rates to get his way. Thus the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga offered to buy the Chattanooga property of Mr. Willkie's Tennessee Electric Power Co., threatened to build its own plant unless he agreed. Last week, in a long letter to the board, Mr. Willkie deftly left the matter...
...Texas the same day, President John W. Carpenter of Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying...