Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into law a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature, compelling Hudson County to install voting machines in each of its 658 election districts. To Hudson County dwellers, who have known only the juggernaut Hague machine (X marks the voter, dead or alive) for 27 years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes have been counted, and then send in whatever Democratic total is needed from Hudson County. Boss Hague still had a good chance: war priorities may prevent the manufacture of enough voting...
...Richard C. Gill brought back a big supply of curare from the jungles, hoping it would help spastic paralysis (TIME, July 22, 1940). It was not much help, because its effects are transient. But doctors soon began to use curare to pre vent bone breaking in metrazol shock treatments for insanity...
...interviews usually start a patient toward recovery. If they do not help, some kind of shock treatment is used; but patients requiring shock are unlikely to recover completely. Then begins a longer period, probably months, of making the patient independent of the psychiatrist. Best way to do this is by occupational therapy-not basketry, but useful jobs around the hospital...
...that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...future, especially dividend-wise. The Department of Commerce reported that dividends paid in December brought the year's total to $3,541,400,000, up only $12,600,000 over the preceding year. A large chunk of the rest of profits went into reserves to cushion the shock of reconversion...