Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause the deaths? No one could say for sure; the three patients who died after injections were very ill anyway. The FDA analyzed some of the bottles, found they contained a pyrogenic (fever-causing) substance. When laboratory rabbits were injected with the solution, half died, half got sick...
...Italians voted. The Reds had hoped that bad weather would keep many people from the polls (a small turnout would favor the Communists). The skies were grey; occasional showers and hailstorms pelted voters. The Christian Democrats, striving to get all the voters to the polls, provided ambulances for the sick and infirm. When they ran out of stretchers, hospital attendants carried patients on their backs. The Italian radio announced: "Dear listener, the program is dull from now on-nothing but chamber music. You'd better switch off the radio and go and vote...
Later in the day, he did better. His 20.7 time in the 220 was a new track record. But Patton, ex-G.L, father of one child and the big U.S. hope for the Olympics, barely heard the announcement. He was behind a stack of sawdust bags being sick, as he is after every race. "It's a damn hard day's work," he said...
...Readings from the schizophrenics were very high, averaging around 65 microvolts (a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt); normal people never sent the readings higher than about eleven microvolts. As the insane patients improved under treatment, their electrical readings fell closer & closer to normal. But if they stayed sick, their electrical marks stayed high...
Down but Not Out. President Truman signed the Reed-Mahaffie bill, thereby ushering in a new era for financially sick railroads. The law permits roads on their uppers to reorganize under ICC supervision without going into slowpoke bankruptcy courts. ICC cannot order any reorganization into effect unless holders of 75% of the securities approve. At least three railroads-the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Lehigh Valley, and Boston & Maine-are expected to take advantage of the new law soon...