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Since that first dramatic case, hundreds of lung amputations have been performed throughout the world, with great success. "In suitable cases," continued Dr. Graham, "where the cancer is not too far advanced, the operation can be done with a mortality of only ten percent. When the cancer is advanced, however, the mortality jumps to 40 or 50%. A very discouraging feature is that about 80% of those patients who come for operation are too far advanced to have a chance...
...Division of History, Government, and Economics still tutors 35 percent of the upperclassmen, but the figures for the past three years show a steady move away from the Division as a whole. History has gained slightly since...
Economics has dropped three percent during recent years from a high of 16 per cent of concentrators in 1937, but it still remains the largest field...
...nights ago I was in Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the City of Light...
...Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co. recently polled 251 corporate users of machine tools to see what percent of tools on hand were obsolete. Findings: of 120,864 machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their...