Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 15 years, Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. has been trying to make a machine which will take over the work of the human heart and lungs during operations. Last week, to speed fulfillment of this surgeons' dream, the National Heart Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service announced that (among more than $8,000,000 in grants) it was allotting $26,827 to Dr. Gibbon and Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College...
...little attention to the role of the liver. Laboratory work has convinced him that in most diabetics the liver cannot metabolize fats fast enough. Physicians working with him in St. Louis reject the common idea that a patient's intake of starches must be restricted; instead, they make the patient cut down on fats, to ease the load on the liver and to get his weight down to the ideal norm for his age and height...
...Madison Square Garden with Big Jake Kramer as his opponent and little Bobby Riggs (who plans to be just a part-time player) as promoter. The deal calls for Pancho to pocket 30% of the gate, against Kramer's 25%. The $50,000 or so he expects to make in one quick shot dwarfs any amount he could make in years of wrangling and ducking behind doors as an expense-account amateur. All set to follow Pancho's lead is poker-faced Frank Parker, ranked No. 3, whose prospective opponent for this fall's tour is Francisco...
...linotype got a renewed lease on life in Chicago last week, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, announced a new typesetting process that it hopefully predicted would make the linotype as obsolete as handset body type. The machine (suggested names: Lumitype, Anti-Type, Any-Type) does away with casting of type metal, "sets type" photoelectrically on film instead...
...seeking to convert "do not like to read the paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly cut off our tail of bourgeois ideology...