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Manhattan copyreaders made bad jokes about womanhood last week when a lifesize, transparent figure of a woman, which had arrived from Germany, was placed on exhibition at the Museum of Science & Industry. Within this strange image, standing with outstretched arms, were visible a skeleton, most of the female internal organs, a complete set of blood vessels. The arteries were stained red. the veins blue. Since this was the only figure of its kind in the world and this was its first public appearance anywhere, appropriate ceremonies were held and an informal physiology lesson was radiocast. Present were Dr. Dean Dewitt...
...Century of Progress.- Desiring to sponsor the. first transparent woman, principally as an educational exhibit for the U. S. public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From...
Receivership and bankruptcy proceedings riddled this catch-all with holes through which slipped many a subsidiary by foreclosure and receivership. Over-capitalized at nearly a billion dollars, Middle West Utilities was reorganized into Middle West Corp., remained the groggy skeleton of a Midwest power empire which still included 44 active subsidiaries giving electricity, gas, ice to 2,100 communities in 15 Midwest States and Ontario, Canada. For this empire Middle West's creditors and stockholders fought bitterly for three and a half years in Chicago's Federal District Court. Winners were the banks who for their secured loans...
...curious North Carolinians dug up the grave of Peter Stuart Ney, found a skeleton about the size of Marshal Ney's, made a cast of the skull which has since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal...
...cockroach gets a new skin, which serves as its skeleton, seven times before reaching maturity...