Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress, still trying to blame Leon Henderson for the X-card fiasco, got set to punish him for all the sour mail citizens have sent to Congress. Its method: cut his appropriation, possibly from $161 millions to $100 millions. Then Leon Henderson would have to ask for volunteer snoopers...
...ring of burning gasoline. The gas had escaped from the hoop that contained it, and he had to come up for air through flames. Shooting up as high as he could, he grabbed a breath and sank back feet first, unscorched. Reasoned Coach Lanoue: Why not suggest the method to the Navy...
Last week the coach put on his act for Navy officials. Two gallons of mixed gasoline and diesel oil were ignited on the surface of a swimming pool. Flames spread two feet high along the water. Freddie's perfected method looked so good that four naval officers tried it, emerged with eyebrows unsinged...
...information into print is another simple Fahey process, involving no manuscripts or copy. As new statistical data comes in, he has the printer make the changes right in the type, which is still set up from the last printing (first of two previous editions was in 1939) a method long used by telephone companies Worry furrows the Fahey brow only when a new edition nears press time, because not so much as a postage stamp of space must go bare, and he must fill in from memory all the spaces under the pictures and around the figures. The assorted facts...
...Standard treatment for wounds in World War II is to trim off all dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution...