Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play with dynamite-or worse. Discharged from the Navy and also out on bond on a burglary indictment, he enrolled at Tyler Junior College. Aiming to be an X-ray technologist, he took practical lab work two hours a day at Mother Frances Hospital. In a back room at home he did such impractical work as making rockets that blew up ("The fuel was just too damn powerful," he explains...
...isolation at Mother Frances Hospital (it happened to be in the psychiatric ward). Each day, doctors examined him and drew blood samples for testing. This week no definite signs of radiation injury had appeared, but it was too soon to be sure. In any case, Johnny's back-room lab, from which illegal stocks of barbiturates and chloral hydrate were confiscated, was closed indefinitely...
...Benevolent Institute. Huggins was admitted the day before. So was Bill Slater, scheduled to undergo operation by Dr. Joseph W. Graves for correction of a hernia and removal of a diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved for Dr. Ray, one for Dr. Graves. That, said Plaintiff Huggins, was where things went wrong: he was sent with Patient Slater's chart to Dr. Graves's operating room, while Slater got Huggins' chart and went to Dr. Ray's theater...
...expected (TIME, Sept. 22), the new rules will encourage better housing even though they do not go as far as some critics wanted in costly upgrading. The two-bedroom and separate dining-room house formerly could have as little as 450 sq. ft. exclusive of bath; now it must have 500 sq. ft. Storage space for a two-bedroom unit could total as little as 250 cu. ft., now must total 350 cu. ft. Hallways, once unspecified as to width, now must be at least 3 ft. from wall to wall. Equipment must be better. The hot-water heater that...
...companies (in which 109 million Americans have policies with a face value exceeding $458 billion) last year paid $292 million, based on a stopgap law that levied the regular 52% corporate income tax on up to 15% of their net investment income. Industry executives who jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Taxation, indicate that the present tax is out of line with what other industries pay. Mills made it clear that a new deal must be worked out for Congress...