Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgeon once spent three hours locating a needle in a man's foot, though the X ray showed it clearly. So Dr. Alexander Edwin William Ada, of Manhattan, who had never heard of anyone's getting a needle out of a heart before, decided to use the pencil-like electronic metal detector invented by Subway Engineer Samuel Berman (TIME, Aug. 30). It had been used successfully on 22 Pearl Harbor wounds...
Sober citizens blinked as if they had been slugged. Incredulously they read the news a second time, then reached dizzily for pencil and scratch pad. This week five veterans' organizations proposed that the prospective 11,000,000-odd veterans of World War II be paid bonuses of up to $4,500 each. Only the American Legion was missing from the list of sponsors: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Army and Navy Union, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Regular Veterans'Association. Bonuses would be figured at the rate of $3 a day for home service (with...
Sculptor Edwards' specialty is hands. He can take an impression of a man's good left hand, make him a right-hand copy of it so realistic that even the fine skin lines show. The hand will hold a pencil or cigaret (see cut), and the fingers bend naturally if leaned against something solid. The coloring is lifelike (if it wears off, it can be touched up temporarily with leg make-up). An Edwards hand and arm costs...
There was not much room in the crowded, pencil-thin 6-25 to lay the wounded man down. There was less room to mix the dried, tan-colored plasma with distilled water, to set' up the bottle and insert the rubber tube in the wounded man's arm. But Co-Pilot August Mirzaoff and Engineer R. V. Smith Jr. remembered their lessons. Slowly life began to return to Doyle's deathly-pale face. By the time the 6-25 reached a base he was much stronger, was pronounced a sure shot for recovery...
...without much hope. He did a few of the things he is used to doing nearly every day. He did them with ease. He took a box of matches out of his pocket and lit his cigaret. He used a telephone. He wrote a good hand, in pen and pencil. He handled a pack of cards. He showed the goggle-eyed boys how to do these things. He talked to them...