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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons: ¶ Cheered whirlwind efforts to secure British control of the sea and air by Air Minister Viscount Swinton and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare, who is popularizing his new slogan "BRITAIN MEANS BUSINESS...
...scramble were issued only a few weeks ago, sensational further supplementary estimates were issued last week. These rocketed the 1936 rearmament bill to $940,000,000 with a further "rearmament loan" in prospect. To questions by nervous M. P.'s as to how quickly the Navy can act, Sir Samuel replied that very shortly the Admiralty will be able to announce that more than half its capital ships are being kept ready for immediate action...
...Peppered peppery Undersecretary for Air Sir Philip Sassoon and overwrought Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with demands that something be done about Germany's insolence in sending the Hindenburg flying over strategic British areas and about Adolf Hitler's neglect to answer Mr. Eden's questions about the intentions of Nazidom in Europe (TIME, May 18). Presently the handsome young Foreign Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April...
...Recently Sir Thomas Lewis, eminent London heart specialist, made a special study of how an arm or leg dies when an embolus (floating clot) plugs a main artery which feeds blood to that limb. Competent heart specialists and surgeons generally see such blood-starved limbs too late to save them from gangrene and amputation. Last week, by chance, a Chicago doctor, Geza deTakats, in the American Journal of Surgery, and a Toronto doctor, Donald Walton Gordon Murray, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, each gave explicit directions for locating such a destructive clot, removing it by surgery, thus saving...
...unsuccessful, the limb dies, according to Heart Specialist Sir Thomas Lewis, in this order: 1) the sense of touch in the fingers, which proceeds up the hand and arm 1½ in. per minute; 2) the kinesthetic sense, by which a person knows how his arm lies in relation to his body; 3) muscular power; 4) sense of pain; 5) sense of temperature; 6) nerves which cause goose flesh...