Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar...
Tactful, 43-year-old Dr. Davison hopes to turn the compromise between the hospital and the A.M.A. into a lasting peace. Chicagoans, weary of squabbles and political scandal, hoped that he would plump for a bigger appropriation to buy more bedpans, provide more ward space, keep beds out of corridors...
* In 1937 Cook County set up the first blood bank in the U. S.
> Department of Commerce's October report from nearly 3,000 wholesalers showed a 6.5% drop in volume of sales, a 6.3% drop in dollar value from September. Meanwhile, inventories (from 1,729 firms) were up 3½% (in cost value) from September, 6% from October 1938.
> Exports, counted on since September to absorb overproduction, still got nowhere. Brightest spot was Latin America: October takings were up 14% from September, 18% from October 1938. But cash buying is a luxury for Latin America necessitated by War II's cutting down its barter trading with Europe. By...