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...penny, Lincoln or Indian, with salt or without, is only one-fifth of a nickel, no matter who your section man was in Ec A. And when unscrupulous people inject a penny into an unsuspecting pay phone, with salt or without (although the salt, experts will tell you, is indispensable) that means the stockholders, about a million of them in this case, are out $.04, or a net loss of return on investment of 80%. And you can't run a business with that kind of a loss, whether you've been retooled by the Busy School...
...attempt to inject some spirit into the members of the Naval R.O.T.C., and also to help break up the monotony of their calisthenics. Chief Petty Officer Frank Patrick, head of Navy Sci athletics, has organized four basketball teams among his men and entered them in an intra-mural league which also includes the eight House teams...
...tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test. Sometimes, in order to seal the smaller cracks, it is necessary to inject a pint to two quarts of liquid cement. Once the tire is made airtight it requires only the usual care...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
Bent on turning out 100 pairs of trained eyes for the Army every five weeks until further notice, tall Colonel Stanton T. Smith, boss of the observers' school, has tried hard to impress his students with the importance of their jobs, to inject a little glamor into the skull-dragging drudgery of observers' work...