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...Labor Day, New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airways established "plane every hour" service (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week?the third week of operation???the company carried 1,202 passengers, an average of 172 per day (among them: Chilean Ambassador Don Carlos Davila, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a baby wildcat, presidents of seven corporations, two infants in arms). Proudly, officials of the company compared that with the latest available average of all air lines operating across the English Channel? 118 per day. Traffic for the week was 65% of capacity...
August members of the German Scientific Society learned that Surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch of Munich would tell them, at their conference at Karlsruhe, Germany, last week, how he squeezed tubercular pus out of the lungs of consumptive patients. They thronged to hear him. The operation??? artificial pneumothorax?is by no means new. An Irish doctor, James Carson of Liverpool, figured it out theoretically in 1821; and during 1894-95 an Italian, Forlanini, worked out the full, practical method. It takes such beautiful advantage of the mechanics of the human torso that the German scientists listened well to Surgeon Sauerbruch, an especially...