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...injured tissue with a knife. If the pieces of metal were close to the surface, they were removed; if small and deeply embedded, they were allowed to remain in the brain, for fear of increasing damage by operation. When the brain was clean, the wound was filled with sulfanilamide powder, and the brain envelope and scalp stitched tight...
...collected for the Red Cross plasma reservoir is refrigerated at 4° C. (39° Fahrenheit), shipped to laboratories where the plasma is separated from the blood cells in a centrifuge, a whirling machine that works like a cream separator. A technique very recently developed dries the plasma like powdered milk for storage as a pale yellow powder; this powder is made available for quick transfusion by mixing with sterile, triple-distilled water. The doctors in charge of the program estimate that stores of dried plasma will not deteriorate for at least five years...
Lignin plastics are the cheapest plastics yet devised; at 5? per lb. for the powder they cost only one-third to one-fourth the cost of most synthetic resins. But today they have a still greater advantage-they require as little as 2 or 3% phenol (carbolic acid), a chief component of the commonest plastics and now a badly needed, priorities-listed ingredient. Furthermore, lignin molding powders can be mixed to "extend" phenol plastics by 100%, synthetic rubber for many uses by 100 to 500%. This aspect of lignin was last week under intensive study by the U.S. Army & Navy...
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U.P.)--Japan is sitting on a huge powder keg whose tremendous forces could wreak more destruction throughout the island empire than all the bombing planes in the world, according to Dr. Helmut Landsberg, University of Chicago seismologist...
Grounds for the hoarders' fears: 1) Hawaii and the Philippines, which should have contributed some 2,000,000 tons of raw sugar to the U.S. this year, may not be able to supply any; 2) vastly increased needs for alcohol for smokeless powder (see p. 66) may throw all the supply figures galley west; 3) nobody knows how much sugar the U.S. may have to Lend-Lease to Britain, the U.S.S.R., other allies. But the Commodity Research Bureau last week estimated minimum raw-sugar supplies for 1942 of 4,575,000 short tons, not counting any at all from...