Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Operation Gauge. To tell whether a patient is apt to die of shock as result of an operation, take his pulse and blood pressure while he lies down and again while he stands up, advised Dr. Charles Ward Crampton of Manhattan. The figures indicate the patient's vasotone efficiency according to a chart which Dr. Crampton showed the physical therapists, declaring...
...dozen cotton brokers and experts began this guessing game. Most of them daringly went out on a limb, estimated a record drop of 500,000 to 700,000 bales below the Government's August estimate of 12,481,000 bales. One noon last week they had the shock of their lives. Trading stopped as usual as the Government's Sept. 1 cotton estimate came over the wires: 11,121,000 bales- down 1,360,000 bales in one month, an alltime record drop...
Last week, while working on a farm, Vito Geneva was again stung by bees in the armpit. He went home, entertained friends, slept soundly, rose in the morning, collapsed. His doctor called for an oxygen tent, treated him for shock for five hours. Then Vito Geneva died...
More than 20 years ago Mr. Crump was Mayor of Memphis. In 1930 he was elected to Congress, served two quiet, unpretentious terms, gracefully retired. Now a jaunty, strapping six-footer of 60 with an unruly shock of hair, he controls all offices in Tennessee's largest city. The Crump dynasty is supposed to be financed by various forms of "protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result...
...contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year. In 1934 Miss Astor's parents, who evidently regarded their daughter as a speculative investment, complained in court that she had failed to keep them in luxury (TIME, April 2, 1934). Pacified...