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Arthritis Due to Injury. Caused either by a single severe injury or by endless repetition of minor, unnoticed injuries. Commonest examples: tennis elbow and housemaid's knee. Treatment: draining away water on the knee, heat, massage, X rays, Novocain injections and, in severe cases, surgery. Now usually curable...
...phone call from SEChairman Sinclair Armstrong in Washington : "Ted, I'm sending you a telegram to the effect that we are suspending trading in Great Sweet Grass Oils pursuant to section 19 (a) (4), and we are also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock.) SEC scheduled a hearing to see if it should delist the stock or suspend it from...
With the tube in place, Dr. Forssmann climbed two flights of stairs to the X-ray room, and persuaded the radiologist to take a picture as photographic proof that its tip had entered the right side of his heart. The technique, he reported in a learned paper in 1929, would be valuable for studying the blood pressure inside the heart, and for injecting radiopaque dyes to get X rays of the heart, including abnormalities. But his discovery was ignored in Germany. Older men, who should have been wiser, scoffed at Forssmann's catheterization of the heart as a circus...
...converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records...