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...less than 39 items on the Army's ration chart. Even the iron rations of 1942 (a can of pork & beans, a can of meat and vegetable hash, a can of meat and vegetable stew, three cans of biscuit bread, enough soluble bean to make a pint of coffee, a square of chocolate candy) are a vast improvement over the "tinned willie" of World...
With preliminary results in from all Houses but Kirkland, 316 students have signed up to contribute a pint of blood each to the Red Cross drive to build up a plasma bank for the armed froces...
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...
...Pint Out. Pint In. Some 45,000 men & women volunteers have already taken Red Cross tests for blood. The technique, developed under the guidance of the National Research Council, is simple, painless. A nurse takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, a small sample of the blood. She asks whether the donor has a cold, or has ever had tuberculosis or malaria, fainting spells or fits. If the answer is no, if the donor looks healthy and the blood sample contains enough hemoglobin (80%), a doctor anesthetizes the inner arm below the elbow and the collecting needle slides painlessly into a vein...
...minutes the volunteer has parted with about a pint of blood. Afterwards he rests, gets a pint of fluid-milk, fruit juice, coffee or tea. Also obtainable but optional is a shot of whiskey. Some donors want to give more than once. The Red Cross will accept five bloodlettings a year from any one donor, at intervals of eight weeks or longer...