Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Door Jam. In Rock Springs, Wyo., the judge who fined Cecil Jones for intoxication had to stand outside Jones's cell to do it: Jones had mistaken the lock on the door for a slot machine, jammed it full of nickels...
While U.S. juvenile delinquency booms (an estimated increase of over 20% in the past two years), adult crime has slumped. Wartime is emptying many a U.S. prison cell because: 1) many a potential or actual criminal is now under military discipline, 2) young men not in the Army are too busy or too well paid in war jobs to be tempted by "easy money" crimes...
Since the Red Cross began to bank blood, thousands of gallons of red blood corpuscles have been thrown down the drain-only the blood plasma is used. Dr. Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought there ought to be something these discarded red cells, which constitute 46% of the whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful...
...Navy doctors administered 72 red-cell transfusions to 48 anemic patients. All but four showed definite improvement. Only two had bad reactions (they became feverish). One patient, apparently dying of pernicious anemia, was given five red-cell transfusions; his red-cell blood count improved from 650,000 to 3,130,000, his hemoglobin from 2 to 11 gm. per 100 c.c., in a month he was able to go home...
...most, C.E.D. could itself affect the postwar business "climate" by making business believe in expansion and competition, and act upon that belief. Every individual business is a cell in the body economic. Only if each cell is active and healthy can the body be healthy. This is the condition that C.E.D. is trying to create...