Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar...
A few bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr...
Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for...
> A supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a...
Five years ago smart, eccentric Irving Salomon, president of Michigan City, Ind.'s Royal Metal Manufacturing Co., looked at his annual business (manufacturing chrome-plated metal tubular furniture) and found it about right: $100,000 profit on $1,500,000 gross. He decided to hold it right there, to...