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...operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating-room floors be grounded in some such way. But there is no uniform code, and doctors disagree about what is safest...
There were 27 men in the plot but, until the night before the rising, only Batista knew who all of them were. He himself wrote out the master plan and orders, employing a kind of ecclesiastical code. If any outsider got a look at the plans, they must have read like an outline for a religious pageant. Each reference to an archbishop or a priest signified an individual; each "ceremony" a place to be captured. At the final night meeting, in a house not far from Havana's all-important Camp Columbia army base, the plotters swore an oath...
...coup is that the cynical old political practices will go on as before. Batista gave the lottery to the same lieutenant who handled it for him under his earlier dictatorship; he placed the customs, a traditional source of political enrichment, in army hands. In scrupulous conformity with the existing code, he left Prío's personal properties untouched-just as Prío had never laid a hand...
...last three months Hughes has torn up eleven new scripts and canceled four pictures ready for production because some of the people who worked on them were "too tall" (RKO studio code for Communist suspects). Last week he declared it was impossible to produce pictures under such conditions, sent 100 employees on "leave of absence," all but shut down the studio. There were mutters in Hollywood that Communism was not the only reason Hughes had acted. RKO production under Hughes has always been slow and costly; no pictures have been started in three months. The company now has a backlog...
...plus II plus HI equals IIIIII." The numbers are "dashes" (single strokes repeated), and the plus signs and equals sign are "flashes." By flashes Hogben means easily recognized groups of radio signals, rather like the letters of the Morse code...