Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Red Cross Blood Donor Centers last week-and 2,000 lives that could not have been saved in World War I had a chance of being saved in World War II. For science has discovered how to store plasma, the life-giving liquid part of the blood: one pint of blood makes a pint of the plasma solution; four pints of plasma may mean the difference between life and death...
Before Pearl Harbor, the Red Cross goal was 200,000 plasma units (a pint-plus of plasma is a unit). Now it wants a million. Average cost to the Red Cross of collecting and storing it (without processing fees) is $2.25 a unit...
...workers who need extra energy should be served "Oslo meals" in mid-morning and afternoon. Originally given to Norwegian school children, Oslo meals (now used in British factories) consist of wholemeal bread, cheese, half an orange, half an apple, a raw carrot, a little less than a pint of milk...
...vacations would change, like all else. He would have to change, too, would Vag; he'd develop a stern and realistic attitude and wear a V pin and make sacrifices, because everyone else was. What could he do to help--take a First Aid course maybe, or donate a pint of blood? Brrr! He didn't like the idea of a big, thick needle jabbed in his arm. But here it was--brave new year, brave new Vag; Vag and Victory both start with the same letter. Vag would change, Vag would sacrifice...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...