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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgian, it was way behind. With a circulation of only 75,178, and such local advertising crumbs as the Journal and the Constitution dropped from their table, rumor said the Georgian had lost around $200,000 a year. Ably edited, it was blighted by a succession of Hearst experts from the North who could not understand the South's temper. Sale of the Georgian leaves Hearst's depleted empire with 17 newspapers, only one (the San Antonio Light) in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...blood transfusions (the last three of blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more effective than zinc sulfate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...number of muscle contractions can be raised to the normal number of 30 or 40 a minute for a period of three minutes. Such stimulation, if cautiously and skillfully applied, has worked wonders with "old" paralysis, wrote Dr. Richard Kovacs of Manhattan. After four weeks of electric stimulation, he said, one patient with an "atrophied leg ... of 18 years' standing" was able to bend her knee again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...again, to report that the Spee had steamed out into the Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to the Nazi cargo steamer, Tacoma. "The commander," Jimmy hazarded, "may try to scuttle the ship about five miles out." He was covering, he said, from a dock, in the midst of a crowd. "They are doing a lot of talking," he shouted. NBC cut him off the network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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