Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yearly deaths by asphyxia approximately 35% are caused by carbon monoxide. Many a carbon monoxide victim dies after his breathing has been restored, the poison cleansed from his blood. For three years U. S. Public Health Service and Bureau of Mines researchers have sought, through experiments on cats & dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient...
...British peer described some of the more common methods of extracting "information." "These examples have all been verified by members of the committee working within Germany. To prepare a victim for 'questioning' the men are first beaten severely. They are either lashed for a period of about three hours with long telescopic steel whips which leaves their flesh in ribbons, or they are beaten with heavy rubber truncheons which do not break the skin but inflict terrible internal injuries from which the men rarely recover. The women are often given over to Nazi soldiers. We have in our possession medical...
...greatly on an order of Army ships that the Army had asked for and received 50 additional planes delivered for $1 each. Star witness last week was James V. Martin, eccentric inventor of Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin charged that "this nation for 17 years has been the victim of a gigantic, insidious conspiracy by a small group of banking brokers" who robbed the Government of 75? of every dollar spent on military aviation. The trust, said he, was composed of Curtiss-Wright, Pratt & Whitney, General Aviation and Boeing, and "the departments are honeycombed with agents and employes...
...Park, Ill., having slept through two birthdays, an attack of lobar pneumonia and the marriage and maternity of her first nurse, Patricia Maguire, 28, victim of lethargic encephalitis, last week ended her second year of sleeping by sleeping on. She has lately begun to sit up, eat solid food...
...before the Texas vote, NRA revoked its first Blue Eagle in a case involving child labor. Victim was neither a shrimp cannery operator nor a sugar beet harvester, both notorious pre-NRA child-sweaters, but one Moss P. Lugena, 53, proprietor of the Lugena Family Laundry...