Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work only four days a week-together. In brightening up their own lives, they have done quite a lot to make a cheerful half hour once a week for millions of televiewers. The show, begun only last October, has rocketed up in the popularity ratings, is now fourth among Nielsen...
There was nothing wrong with the Schafer method as far as it went. But a Danish instructor in physical fitness, Holger Nielsen, argued that its rhythmic pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method...
...toughest problems faced by researchers testing the Nielsen method was to find suitable victims. Volunteers holding their breath were not much good. Finally, it was decided to collapse ten volunteers for a while with a paralyzing shot of curare. The Schafer method brought seven subjects around, but failed in three. As these turned blue, the Nielsen method was started. It revived them all, and that settled the argument...
Squad Captain Charles F. Walther of the South Omaha truck waited three years for a chance to prove his skill. He got it last week when a young (22) father, Ralph Nielsen, called the fire department for help: his baby was choking to death. In five minutes, Walther and his squad dashed up to the Nielsens' house, found baby Thomas, aged five months, blue in the face. His pulse and breathing had stopped. There was not a minute to lose...
...whipped out their audience charts to see what they should do. Said American Broadcasting Co.: "We shall meet the competition." National Broadcasting Co., which tried to cut its own radio rates last winter but was howled down by its affiliated stations, was "studying" the move. But with the latest Nielsen report showing that CBS has nine of the top ten evening radio shows, radiomen guessed that NBC would also...