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Strange disease symptoms in workers are appearing as a result of new products and processes in industry. A woman employed in a London floor polish factory noted that her lips were discolored. A specialist discovered that a chemical used in her work was turning her blood blue. Treatment put the woman right, and precautions in the factory prevented the extension of "blue blood" among the workers.--New York Times, April...
...city (casualties included the local office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs). Then the rebels fled, or were killed or captured. Their airplanes ran out of gas or flew off to Honduras. Colonel Tito Calvo was reportedly captured and shot. Dr. Arturo Romero, Paris trained skin specialist and civilian leader of the revolt, may have found sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy...
...active duty in November, 1942, and served for a year as Chaplain at the Army Air Forces Seventh Basic Training Center, Atlantic City. In December, 1943 he was transferred to the Army Air Force Third Redistribution Station at Santa Monica, California, where his duty was that of a specialist in personal counselling...
Died. Dr. Carl Koller, 86, eye specialist, first doctor to use cocaine as a local anesthetic; in Manhattan. In 1884 Koller collaborated with the late, great Sigmund Freud in testing cocaine's influence on muscular strength, digressed to try the drug on an animal's eye, soon demonstrated the boon in many operations...
...broadcasting waves of the same frequency as ordinary sound. Girl. Anne Hagopian, 16, a Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School. Like Amber, she is an athlete, musician (piano) and likes to paint. A specialist in atomic theories, she plans to go to Radcliffe and become a research physicist...