Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago. a young medical researcher assisting at an operation near the phrenic nerve (which runs from the brain to the diaphragm), got a new idea from watching a well-known reaction. When stimulated, the phrenic nerve makes the diaphragm contract, causing abdominal breathing. Why is it not possible, Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff asked himself, to stimulate the nerve rhythmically, perhaps electrically, to provide artificial respiration for patients whose breathing apparatus has been upset...
...stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...plans no cut in its present service. But he hopes to keep occupancy at a peak by feeding it business from his hotels outside New York. And, by giving the stately pile a warmer atmosphere, he hopes it will appeal not only to potentates-but to ordinary travelers as well...
...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...
...death of Commonwealth & Southern was about all that Wall Streeters seemed sad about last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.38 points to a new 1949 high of 185.36, well above what most traders had hoped for in what they had regarded as only the usual "summer rise...