Word: traction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traction. In Invercargill, New Zealand, a three-month-old baby had a difficult time nursing, did just fine with the help of a brand-new set of false teeth...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
William Loss never expected to go into the movie business. But as a financial analyst with Manhattan's H. Hentz & Co. and a director of Citizens Traction Co., he often noticed another entry in the "Ci" columns: Cinecolor Corp., a company which processes color movie films. As the stock crept from 4? a share toward $1, he noticed Cinecolor more & more...
...Murphy knew about production. British-born, he had come to the U.S. in 1909, worked since then as a traction executive in Pittsburgh, New York, Albany. He took off his coat, had M3's clanking off the assembly lines five months later...
...Patton Jr. was fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died in his sleep...