Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sinking monkey. Dr. Davis tried to revive her by blowing his own breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and massaged it by hand. But Able was dead. Next morning her carcass was flown in a small suitcase to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, where an autopsy was performed by Colonel Joe M. Blumberg, who had orders not to mar unnecessarily her historic skin...
...roomy nose cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
...underwent 18 jolting sessions of radiation therapy and one injection of radioactive gold, then set off hopefully for a convalescence under the sun and beside the sea in Florida. But the hope was short-lived. Two weeks later, John Foster Dulles flew back to Washington and checked into Walter Reed hospital for the last time...
...Thoughtless prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...
...manages four U.S. funds (including an income and a science fund) and participates in the management of a Canadian fund; it has 145,000 shareholders and total assets of $634 million. Founded in 1950 to take over management of the United Fund series, it is run by Cameron Reed, who concentrates on administration and sales from his Kansas City office, and New York Broker Chauncey Waddell. ¶ Lord, Abbett & Co., of Manhattan, was brought into the fund field in 1932 by Andrew J. Lord, who was killed when his horse threw him in 1946; it is now run by humor...