Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Reichart, a 64-year-old inventor and appliance manufacturer of Muncie, Ind. had never seen an "iron lung" respirator in his life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...
Reichart studied data on the complex machine at his little factory, then called for what he needed. Businessmen donated steel barrels and alcohol drums, plywood, motors and parts from vacuum cleaners, small crankshafts from outboard motors. Employees volunteered their labor and worked all night. After ten hours the lung was ready for Rue Steel. The mechanical minutemen kept on, making seven more, and Reichart drew blueprints from which any small-town machine shop could put together an emergency lung...
...Pacific the Army transport General William O. Darby radioed a plea for an iron lung to save John Driskell, 6, son of a sergeant homeward bound from duty in Japan. The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois raced 1,000 miles from Honolulu with a lung; the boy was transferred to the cutter and taken to the hospital in Hawaii...
Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...
...preliminary report on a scientific survey indicated that one of the factors in lung cancer...