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...Thomas's Hospital, and lately at Columbia-Presbyterian, plain oxygen has proved to be a useful ally toward this goal. Cells are more easily destroyed if they have a large supply of oxygen, but tumor cells are frequently oxygen-starved; they grow so rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream to the tumor cells...
...high cost of imported raw materials. European firms are often spurred on by labor shortages to find means of increasing production without additional manpower. Nonetheless, the net effect in both Europe and Asia is a labor saving that shows up in productivity gains that, in most cases, outstrip the U.S. rate of increase. While U.S. manufacturing productivity has risen 15% since 1953, West Germany can point to an increase of 53%, Japan 71% and France...
...needs. He chooses his own doctor. When he gets treatment, the doctor sends the bill to the P.A.C.C. If illness has been running at average rates, the doctor gets his full fee, according to a set schedule. If there has been a lot of illness, so that charges outstrip premiums collected, the doctors take a proportionate...
WORLD COFFEE SURPLUS is building up. Backlog at present is 40 million bags, about an eight-month supply at current consumption rate, and production continues to outstrip demand...
Birth-control advocates insist that unless drastic measures are taken now, India's population will totally outstrip its national resources by 1985; in Punjab, for example, land holdings are already officially limited to 30 acres. Even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once a skeptic on the subject, now agrees. Boasts Nehru: "There is more talk and action on birth control in India officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized...