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...some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating-room floors be grounded in some such way. But there is no uniform code, and doctors disagree about what...
Company spokesman Edward L. Francis said yesterday that the materials used in the floors was a special tile, designed for soundproofing. He added that $1,400 had been spent on further noise muffling since the buildings were completed...
This week the magazine gave in to its own sales talk, and moved from a drab San Francisco office building to a new, $500,000 ranch-house building in suburban Menlo Park, with glass partitions, barbecue pits, foot-thick adobe walls, floors of Indian-made tile, beams, acres of gardens. The staff, who mostly moved with it, prepared to welcome 10,000 friends at an open house that included a barbecue in their plant's radiant-heated patio...
...fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
Colonel Kinney and his party were driven to a large, tile-roofed Korean mansion -once elegant, now shabby-on the northern outskirts. Kaesong seemed to be brimming with Communist troops; the meeting house was surrounded by armed guards. Inside, the unarmed U.N. representatives were met by an unarmed five-man Communist team...