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When the Red Cross takes a pint of blood from a patriotic donor, the blood is centrifuged to separate the light-colored fluid (plasma) from the red blood corpuscles. The plasma-60% of the blood's volume-may save a life in Africa; the red residue goes down the sewer, because red blood corpuscles quickly spoil. New York's Lederle Laboratories alone discard over 1,000 pints...
...allowed to remain undisturbed, however, the oyster will relax its muscles slightly, opening the shell and drawing in some of the surrounding water. The starfish, in the meantime, has been secreting an acid digestive juice in large quantities from great glands which fill all of its five arms. This fluid acts as an "anesthetic" on the muscles of the oyster, rendering them flabby and useless, after which it becomes an easy matter for the starfish to devour its prey...
...vapors and the "fluid" catalyst are forced under 10-lb. pressure through tiny holes into a reaction chamber at a temperature of around 800-975° F. In scant seconds the oil is cracked and the mixture-vapors, gases and carbon-coated catalyst-moves up through cyclone separators where the powder is dropped into a spent catalyst chamber. From there it flows into a regeneration chamber where a stream of air burns off the carbon at a temperature of 1,000-1,150° F. The powder, still moving, is cleaned of remaining gases in more cyclone separators...
...dirty, his eyes were closed, his chest was taped where the Major had cut out a sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before he had been patrolling the Sanananda shore in the steaming rain. Said Major Swinton: "Those people at home should know how their plasma is being used...
...Fury in Fluid. A hopeful sign for the future was the Red Army's new way of fighting. Long the masters and victims of defensive warfare with infantry masses, the Russians now appeared to have mastered fluid, offensive warfare. Strong tank and motorized artllery columns plunged as much as 30 miles ahead of the infantry -a totally new departure for the Red Army, all the more remarkable because it was accomplished in winter snows. By painful study, the Red Army Command had adapted the Germans' Panzer technique, and had now applied it when & where the Germans least expected...