Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mad Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
None of them has seen the Mad Anesthetist at his work, nor heard his hollow laugh. But last week citizens of Mattoon were watching for him, any and every midnight...
...thus mollifying Nelson and his friends, the President angered Charlie Wilson. Wilson could not be sure now whether Nelson had been kicked out or not. Back to the White House went Charlie, good and mad, a hot resignation in hand. This time he meant it. "Since . . . your request that I assume direction of WPB, there has been renewed circulation ... of stories that because of my former position as president [of G.E.] ... I am opposed to reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless...
...Busy to Argue. Western railroad operators were fighting mad at Biddle and Berge last week, but they had little time for a quarrel. Their lines were jammed with a record freight and passenger traffic. Union Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge was suffering from "Potomac fever." Joseph Hays, counsel for the W.A.R.E., said: "Mr. Biddle knows that if his charges were anything more than sheer demagoguery he could take the complaint to the ICC for speedy redress." Hays argued that Attorney General Biddle should have included ICC among the culprits, since...
...Hunter Hunted. In June, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 312,000 tons of Allied shipping-a far cry from the mad March days of 1942 and 1943, when they claimed 900,000 or more. But even this relatively modest claim was a thousand percent exaggeration. In other words, sinkings actually were under 30,000 tons...