Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Knott Hemo-Irradiator is simple. A small amount of blood (two cubic centimetres per pound of body weight) is withdrawn from a vein in the arm, mixed with citrate to prevent clotting. The citrated blood is passed through a rubber tube into a small, round quartz and steel irradiation chamber. Against the quartz window the doctor fits a lamp, like a flashlight, which emanates ultraviolet rays. An automatic shutter turns the lamp off every few seconds to prevent over-irradiation. Length of irradiation varies from nine to 14 seconds, depending upon the severity of the infection. Once the blood...
...Young Women's Republican Club of New York. It included the German-American Congress for Democracy (with 2,000 New York City members to begin with, and branches being organized in six other States), the 66th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association (see pg. 42-the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, Kansas county citizens' defense councils. Governors were for it-Lehman of New York, Stark of Missouri, Murphy of New Hampshire-as well as the leaders...
...president of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1937, Thomas John Watson, International Business Machines president, accepted the Merit Cross of the German Eagle. "Because the present policies of your Government are contrary to the causes for which I have been working," Tycoon Watson last week sent the medal back to Hitler...
...Jacques Tremoulet and Radio-Manufacturer Leon Kierkowsky built a radio station at Toulouse in southern France, gradually formed an imposing radio chain. As insurance against unfavorable regulation by the French Government, in 1935 they began building Radio Andorra. In the face of heated opposition from Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies, the pair went calmly ahead with the installation without official authorization. They finally finagled from France permission to broadcast, but were allocated no wave length on which to operate. Not to be stopped by such a triviality, in 1938 they blithely began experimental sending on the same frequency...
...warning that this nation "is spawning a large number of a new kind of American, a youth who is afraid to fight," was given by Com. Robert C. Lee, executive vice-president of the Moore-McCormack lines . . . at the Chamber of Commerce last night. "If this number is allowed to increase," he said, "our doom is sealed. Unless the legions of America are ever eager and willing to fight for freedom and the Church of God then we are lost. I believe we still possess the elements of greatness, but the sooner we get into this fight, which is inevitably...