Word: appendixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has mastered Italian politics so thoroughly that his main interest now lies in turning the state into a business run efficiently by businessmen, pushed preparations last week to cut out what he has come to think of as Italy's political appendix, the Chamber of Deputies...
...medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies to set fee schedules. But Publisher Lansing Chapman...
...complete appendix contains a portion of the correspondence of Peter Warren, naval leader of the affair, whose reports must prove invaluable to the scholar, as will the complete lists of the vessels used and taken in the encounter. One of the most interesting features is a contemporary account of the expedition which appeared week by week in The New York Weekly Post-Boy, one of the few newspapers of the day. For the genealogically minded who are eager to trace the prowess of their ancestors in this greatest of colonial expeditions, the editor has most kindly included a complete index...
...mason in Hackensack and Paterson, N. J. He was quiet and solitary, had no police record. But one employer recalled that he harangued fellow-workers against "the rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week...
...Detroit, Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure, who operated last fortnight on Henry Ford, marveled at his patient's youth and recuperative powers; revealed he was out of bed for a few moments the day following his operation; said his malady (gangrenous appendix strangulated in the hernial sac) was the first of its kind among 191,000 Henry Ford Hospital patients, one of 20 in medical history. Patient Ford sat up; invited newsmen in; announced for next year "something really new in automobiles"; denied he would sell Ford stock to the public or retire...