Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment in ski tramways. Since last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...
Fingers-from Toes. Dr. Herbert van Heekeren Thatcher of Portland, Ore., told his colleagues how he mends severed finger tendons without impairing the grasping function of the hand. First he slips a stainless steel rod, three-sevenths of an inch in diameter and curved to fit the natural bend of the finger, into the narrow sheath which encloses the torn tendon...
After three weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...
Wired Heads. Persons with broken necks have to keep their heads up so that their fractured vertebrae will grow together in normal alignment. Ordinarily, tight steel collars are used to extend broken necks, but they are uncomfortable, interfere with sleeping, eating, bathing...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...