Word: tractions
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...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...
...building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, and co-owner and president of the Atlantic City Traction...
Last week, Juan March went again to Reus and struck the final blow. By authority of last year's bankruptcy decision, he led a meeting of Barcelona Traction creditors (i.e., himself, the principal bondholder) and appointed the requisite "syndicos" (his agents) to dispose of Barcelona's assets. Nobody doubted who would get them...
Unable to strike at CHADE, March turned his attention again to Barcelona Traction. In February 1948, an obliging judge in the small Catalonian town of Reus declared that, since Barcelona Traction had not paid the interest on its bonds, it was bankrupt. Franco's authorities moved in, evicted Barcelona Traction's officers from their Barcelona headquarters, and ushered in Juan March...