Word: traction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain's sleepy provincial town of Reus, Judge Alfredo Fournier has spent most of his 15 years on the bench settling peasants' disputes over stray pigs. Last week, nervous Judge Fournier had a much bigger job; he auctioned off the $56 million Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd., which controls Spain's biggest public utility. As everyone expected, it went to crafty old Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler who has become Spain's biggest businessman...
...Driver John William George Samson, 57, known as "Sambo" to many of the boys, was experiencing a different kind of pride that night. Just a year before, the Chatham Traction Co. had given him a fine chiming clock in honor of 40 faithful years in their employ. As Samson mounted his double-decker bus last week, to take it once again over a run he knew as well as the back of his hand, he was looking forward to another company dinner the next night, at which he would rank as an acknowledged elder statesman among bus drivers...
...hospital tour to cheer bedridden G.I.s, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth arrived at the Army's Madigan General Hospital, near Tacoma, where one orthopedic patient in a traction harness demanded a pair of socks to cover his naked feet before the noted visitor arrived. At the Bremerton Naval Hospital, a sailor achieved fame of sorts in his ward when he saw Rita and asked: "Who's that babe...
...injury is diagnosed as a "dislocation and slight fracture of the third cervical vertebra." "Fortunately," said the doctor, "there was not enough dislocation to cause any pressure on the spinal cord." He will be immobilized in a neck traction for the next three to six weeks...