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...woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...
...that if the little NRA for the soft coal industry, set up under the Guffey Bill, is declared unconstitutional, "I promise you that so far as I am concerned, the battle will continue. ... I am in this fight to a finish!'' Thereupon the miners rushed up and wrung "Joe"' Guffey's hand so vigorously that he had to nurse it for the rest...
...were "the bunk," found her own coming-out party disappointing. With her brother and two young friends, she left it, went to Childs Restaurant for supper. On the way out, the four discovered they had no money. "We'll wash dishes for our supper," announced Medora. The manager wrung his hands, pointed out that he already had a professional kitchen staff. The determined four marched into the kitchen, seized mops and began swinging them under other diners' feet. Hovering unhappily, the manager suggested that the two girls were getting their gowns dirty, that Childs was willing to forget...
During the course of one experiment, a few of these miscreants wrung the necks of 12 chickens in a neighboring cage, tore down all electric light fixtures, and released a dozen or more iliblended creatures by rolling up the chicken wire on the cages. Two days later found the monkeys in the seclusion of Franklin Park...
...paid by the consumers?" Beach: "The operating companies are the source of income." Senator Gibson: "And the source from whence their income comes is the consumer? " Beach: "Well, that's true." If Associated Gas was unpopular before last week's investigation, afterward other utility men could have wrung its neck. Said Lobbyist Gadsden for the Committee of Public Utility Executives: "It is, to say the least, unfortunate that representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general. It is acts like this, committed by a small number of companies, which...