Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metal splints for broken leg bones, originally invented by a veterinary for use on dogs, have proved so effective in treating human fractures that the U.S. Navy is now buying 1,000 of them a month. Last week a story in the Annals of Surgery introduced them to U.S. doctors generally...
...Stader technique, a pair of metal pins is first driven through the flesh and well into each end of the fractured bone (see cut). For greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh...
...Anaconda said it had nothing to say; Jesse Jones did not even say that much. But if Senator Bunker's information was right (and at week's end no one had yet denied it) it was important: for the first time one of the great old-line metal producers was getting into light metal production...
...this fruitful pandemonium had been set in motion by the nation's newspaper publishers, who organized the drive (TIME, Sept. 14). Every town provided its scrap-news oddity. In Newton, Mass., Siamese Cat Champion Chinky died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have...
...typical case, a steelworker was horribly burned when molten metal filled his boot. After eight months of hospitalization and every type of conventional treatment from skin-grafting to sulfa drugs, his leg was still unhealed and infected, and he had a high fever. Several doctors decided that amputation was inevitable. Dr. Walsh took over and treated him with "Biodyne" ointment. In four months, the charred leg was good...