Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hills. Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, was one of 400 sailors and 155 marines stationed on Guam when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Tweed had just taken an examination for a rating as a chief radioman and was still waiting to hear the results when the Japs came...
Part of Dr. Hilleboe's $10,000,000 will be used for further research on drugs. But the biggest weapon in his arsenal is simply a mobile X-ray machine, with which he hopes eventually to photograph every chest in the U.S. The machine, now equipped with a new electronic timing device, produces fast, small, high-quality X rays at one-fiftieth of the former cost, can take 500 pictures...
Health on Wheels. Since modern T.B. specialists can almost always overcome the disease in the early stages without drugs, Dr. Hilleboe will concentrate on catching incipient T.B. His division, using eight mobile X-ray units, has already X-rayed more than 1,000,000 war-factory workers. Previously, in the U.S., only 10% of T.B. cases were in early stages when first discovered; Dr. Hilleboe caught...
...ROCKingham (the commons for the other half of Boston) Jack Cornwall and Ray Dunn financed some Texas horse to next year's paddock fees and pasture bills to the detriment of their own weekend plans...
...aboard the Solace. There are six regular wards-all of them with double bunks except the convalescent ward, which has three tiers of bunks for the lighter cases. The wards accommodate 50 to 70 men each. The 40-odd officers bunk four and six to the room. The X ray, the pharmacy and all the assorted medical and surgical equipment are as good as in the best U.S. hospitals. But to the marine or soldier arriving from the battlefield's filth, the most wonderful thing about the Solace is the food. The night I was there supper was chicken...