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...That the tieing off of an irregular (extra) vein, either in the kidney or the recipient, is not likely to embarrass the circulation of blood through the kidney as numerous intra-renal by-passes are present...
...tieing off of irregular arterial vessels is likely to lead to infarction (destruction through lack of oxygenated blood) or atrophy (malfunction through an insufficient arterial blood supply of a segment of the kidney, proportional to the diameter of the artery involved, as there are no intra-renal capallary by-passes present in the organ...
Potash & Planes. In 1951, Bedas set up Intra (cable code for International Traders) with initial capital...
...Today, Intra's investments range from potash extraction in the Dead Sea to Middle East Airlines (51% control), and Bedas is planning still more branches and affiliates in France, Italy, Brazil and Afri ca. Conservative Western financiers, un accustomed to the rough and tumble of Levantine business, are sometimes in clined to look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky...
...Give me another twelve years," boomed he, "and Intra may double in size again...