Word: roofer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning in mid-March. Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, wife of a roofer in Franklin, Ohio, awoke with what she called a bad stomachache. Drugs brought no relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that...
...station's manager, was another ex-teacher, Walter E. Almond, 30. Almond, also an M.A. and formerly a handicrafts instructor at Trenton's Junior High School No. 3, had had to supplement his $74 a week by working as a part-time painter, auto mechanic and roofer. Like Hough, he regretted leaving his profession. His starting salary at Hough's filling station...
...return for having her hospital bills paid, Mrs. James Gallagher, wife of a McKee City roofer, agreed to have her fifth baby before the cameras. At 1:30, the baby's head became visible on the screen. After a few more minutes Philadelphia Obstetrician John C. Ullery began to think about using forceps to speed the birth and ease the pain. Mrs. Gallagher, wide awake and sipping Coca-Cola, had had only light caudal anesthesia...
William Baird, a $50-a-week roofer's helper, and his wife Mary first became aware of the fate awaiting their family eleven years ago when Robert began to have trouble walking. Doctors warned then that his disease might turn up in the other boys. They offered no hope of prevention or cure. Nobody knows what causes muscular dystrophy. Doctors know only that it often appears among several male members of the same family and is probably the result of a recessive gene which suddenly flares into prominence. It produces almost no symptoms beyond deterioration of the muscles...