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...blood of every human being is in one of four groups: A, B, AB, or O, a classification based on the nature of blood cells. If a donor's blood is not of the same type as the patient's, antagonistic cells introduced into the blood stream destroy the old cells, cause death. Over 40% of all human blood is of type 0. Theoretically, donors who have type O blood can safely give transfusions to persons of any type. But practically, type O blood contains anti-A or anti-B factors which, if active, destroy...
Only last month, in a comic strip, when Daddy Warbucks had to have a blood transfusion, Little Orphan Annie had a frantic time finding a donor with the right blood type. But that desperate, urgent situation, fairly common in modern medicine, may soon be out of date...
...capitol, and the local committee was beginning to hope that when the collection ended this week it would have 120,000 lb. of scrap-better than 6 lb. from each of Dane County's families. In Richmond, scrap aluminum (including four outgrown artificial legs from one donor) piled up just as fast. When the collections are over the metal will be rolled flat, baled, sold at 10½? a lb. Proceeds will go to the regional defense councils. The scrap, not usable for aircraft manufacture (which now takes 50% of U.S. production), will be used for other aluminum jobs...
...Peabody Museum Saturday placed on special exhibit on important collection of early Peruvian pottery, textiles and figurines recently acquired by the Museum through the generosity of an anonymous donor. The pieces date mostly from the Nazca period of around 1000 A.D., but there are also objects from other periods, including a polychrome vessel from the Parcas culture of 500 A.D. and a much later wool bag coming from the Inca culture and dating from about...
Gift of any anonymous donor, Shaler Hall will serve as a center of study for University students interested in forestry while Fisher Museum will exhibit the principal models, examples of forest life, and certain phases of silviculture...