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...were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe cut a finger of his right hand. The bill to the city was $55- for 15 visits at $2 each and $25 for a sacroiliac support. For such services from the beginning of 1929 to Jan. 31, 1932, New York City paid Dr. Cassasa $59,169.75, Dr. Brennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Political Doctor | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...have spots-under the fur. A Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beastcatcher | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal in Bering sea and no man will know their path. And as he left the Vagabond bethought him, "Give me the days of knife and paper cutter, take back the Parietal Regulations and the thumb tacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/5/1932 | See Source »

...fact that similar crises are liable to reoccur with rhythmic regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...

Author: By L. K., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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