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...before it happens. They use a cardio-tachometer, with two electrodes taped to the patient's chest. A heart about to stop, they find, gives a full 30 seconds' warning by a drastic slowdown. The same electrodes can be used to give the faltering heart an electrical boost so that it promptly picks up again...
...After generations have testified that mother's milk is best for babies, scientists have discovered one more reason why: it contains more protein-dissolving enzymes than other milks. Armour & Co., sponsors of the research, hope to boost sale of cow's milk to which such enzymes are added...
...large proportion of the outgoing blood was being short-circuited, clogging the right side of the heart instead of coursing into the arteries. Hickey's heart was laboring enormously at only 25% efficiency. He was put to bed on a salt-free diet, and dosed with digitalis to boost his heart. That was in January...
...allow American Coal Shipping Inc., an export company formed by Lewis' U.M.W., seven coal producers and three coal-hauling railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe, South America and Japan. Though many shipping lines protested bitterly, Lewis and friends argued that the fleet will be able to carry 2,500,000 tons more coal each year, thus provide more jobs for U.S. seamen besides helping the coal industry. Lewis, who will...
Toward the Unknown (Warner), which attempts to tell the story of the Bell X2, the Air Force's experimental rocket plane, will probably get a rocket boost at the box office from recent headlines. In July the X-2 set a speed record (1,900 m.p.h.) for manned aircraft. Last month it set the altitude record: 126,000 ft. above sea level. Then it crashed in the desert...