Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Canada's pulse of production grew weaker. Many of the nation's nail factories and foundries had closed. Shipyards, locomotive works, railroad-car shops were digging deep into their inventories. The manufacture of pipes, sinks, wires, tubs, farm implements was being choked off. Plumbing and housing, both critical bottlenecks, were tighter than ever. Auto production dropped to 5,500 so far this month (v. 20,000 in May). Now Ford and General Motors production lines were crawling. (Chrysler's was shut down because of a strike...
...mind-as represented in New York's McCann-Erickson agency-this saccharine ditty from the 1926 hit parade recently had a cataclysmic effect. For weeks the agency had been searching its accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products Corp. It had also been worrying over the same sort of thing for Columbia Recording Corp.'s Dinah Shore. Then several of its geniuses remembered the old song. It was a natch. Lyric writers changed the first...
...week or two, normally, the patient walks out of the hospital without crutches (with conventional treatment it may take months). Later, a surgeon pulls out the nail, and the healed bone is as good...
...surgeons first heard of the nail when captured G.I.s released from German prisons began to turn up with it inside their thighbones (TIME, Mar. 12, 1945). U.S. surgeons thought it presented serious danger of infection and interference with the blood supply (red blood cells are manufactured by bone marrow...
Last week their fears were dispelled. Surgeon Bohler, now back in Vienna, has performed nearly 400 nail operations, on old fractures as well as new, without a single infection. No interference with the blood supply has been observed. Bohler recently published description of the operation, Die Marknagelung Nach Kuntscher is one of the most sought-after medical books in Europe, and the German factory in Kiel which makes the nails is far behind demand...