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First step is to stop the spurting blood, by tourniquet or by a surgical clamp applied directly to the bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around...
Production. For over a year the Churchill Government has faced a heavy barrage from the Left on the question of production. As a last resort Oliver Lyttelton was recalled from Cairo to replace Lord Beaverbrook, and last week he formed a Joint War Production Staff to "clamp together" the needs of the three fighting services...
...Commissioner Moss has his way, the burley houses may not be the only ones to suffer. Already he is planning to clamp down on the night-clubs that allow their entertainers to circulate among the paying customers and drink with them. Closing the burleys implies far more than a question of decency or morality in show business; Moss's unfair censorship strikes at the principles of unimpeded entertainment production...
...indicated, however, that there is a possibility that within the next few weeks the sugar rationing program may clamp down at Harvard. Only rumored at present, this move would involve a 30% cut in the amount of sugar available on all Dining Hall tables. But according to Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, there is no need as yet for University men to worry about the supply of sweetening for their coffee and cereal...
That job done, U.S. armed forces might raid Formosa, clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...