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...want to start a fight in a British pub, just step up to the bar, next to a Scot of the Gordon Highlanders, and ask the barmaid for a half pint of broken squares.* A similar but more up-to-date casus belli might be to ask a seaman off H.M.S. Churchill about the Battle of Lasola Island...
...there were a champion U.S. blood donor, a Pittsburgh truck driver, Russell O. Armour, would appear to be it. Last week he gave his 41st pint in 42 months. Sometimes he has had to use fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around...
...Though seein' we don't often 'ave a victory," said the Sweep, "there's no reason wliy you shouldn't 'ave a pint...
...said he had seen Negro workers "chip in for a pint of whiskey which they got in the next town. They take it back with them and lie dead drunk between the rows of beans and tomatoes...
...Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought the red blood cells should be saved if possible-they are the material needed in a large proportion of hospital transfusions (e.g., anemia), are ordinarily given to patients in whole blood purchased from professional donors at $25 a pint. Dr. Cooksey found that, mixed with a simple salt solution, red cells will keep in good condition for a little over a week, provided processing takes place within an hour of bloodletting. At his suggestion, the blood bank will soon send Detroit hospitals 800 pints of red blood cells...