Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops" in the war against syphilis. They may send patients to any one of the Health Department's 14 diagnostic centres, get back without charge confidential Wassermann reports. Such patients will get free antisyphilitic drugs and nursing service from the city, where needed. Special medical investigators will track down...
...Columbus, Ohio, last week President James P. Warbasse outlined in splendid simplicity a procedure by which "ordinary" capitalist corporations might undergo a sea change, become co-operatives in rour steps.* Said he: "By these natural steps a profit economic system can transform itself into a co-operative system without shock, or without any action of government whatever...
...Father Summers' Woolworth Building laboratory a newshawk grasped an electrode in each hand as if he were experimenting with a toy shock machine. The electrodes were attached to an apparatus resembling a radio set, inside which were two balanced electrical circuits, with a two stage amplifier on the input side hooked up to a recording milliammeter. Any electrical agitation the newshawk betrayed under emotional stress would jiggle the milliammeter, make a needle correspondingly scratch a chart...
Author Williams is satisfactorily horrifying as the murderous bellhop, a creepy, insinuating, pinchbeck manic-depressive. Psychological shock-line comes when Danny is about to be led away in handcuffs. Appraising himself in the mirror, he observes: "This is the real thing...
...they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...