Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregonian who knows enough to make comparisons is shocked by the interior of this mid-Victorian (1883) Bedlam. Its 3,000 patients are 1,000 more than facilities properly can care for. Two toilets, seatless and of vintage unknown, must serve 60 men; 62 women share one metal wash basin...
...when he was a first lieutenant in the Regular Army, he wrecked a DH4 on a night take-off for a transcontinental flight from Jacksonville to San Diego-a major project then. Fellow officers found him hanging from a strut, weeping. Did the engine quit? No. Did the undercarriage wash out? No. Structural failure? No. Well, what happened? "Damn poor piloting," said Jimmy Doolittle...
...trouble began last spring in Vancouver, Wash., when it became apparent that a new Kaiser shipyard would boom the town from 18,000 to 60,000. Kaiser brought in 20 doctors to look after his employes. Vancouver's 22 regular doctors tended the rest of the townsfolk. The State branch of the Procurement & Assignment Service went easy on Vancouver, drafted none of its overworked doctors for the Army (two volunteered). But Vancouver needed still more hospital space. So, after Dr. Sidney Garfield, one of the Kaiser doctors, talked it over with the county medical society. Kaiser built a model...
...Ingenuity. At Fort Lewis, Wash., some business-body who figured the electricians wiring the barracks were traveling a half-mile a day up & down stepladders made everything wonderful by teaching them stilt-walking...
...when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed his appendix, stitched...