Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Planned Economy. "Forward, Not to the Atom Bomb, But to Peace" waved in the breeze over Stalin Allee.* Few stopped to read. Small boys careered through the streets on their bicycles. Crowds surged along the sidewalks searching for vantage points. Any minute the "Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart of the West's lung-busting Tour de France, was guaranteed to be twice as funny as the loudest politician's patriotic spiel...
...regular prices new "Mobilgas-R" with high enough octane rating for knock-free performance in most cars. In the premium field, Esso Standard Oil Co. will soon market special "Golden Esso Extra" with octane rating of more than 97. Sun Oil Co. in Florida is blending gas at the pump, giving drivers a choice of five grades of fuel. Top-grade rating: over...
Bypassing the Heart. A 17-month-old boy at the Cleveland Clinic was the first human subject of the heart-stopping technique. Born with an opening in the septum (wall) between the right and left ventricles, his heart was unable to pump blood efficiently through his body because much of the blood pumped by the left ventricle leaked back through the hole into the right ventricle. The condition was getting worse...
...building palisades of clamps, scalpels, retractors, forceps, the surgeons opened the boy's chest and inserted tubes in the two great veins carrying used blood to the heart. When they clamped off these veins, they forced the blood out through the tubes, which fed it to a combined pump and oxygenator, the heart-lung machine developed by Cleveland Clinic's Willem Johan Kolff (TIME, Oct. 31). From the machine the blood was fed back into the body through an artery in the chest, bypassing the heart...
...Smith's estimates are justified by the need for medical research, Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology, said yesterday. Folsom forgets, Farber maintained, that government assistance has a "pump-priming" effect on public contributions. The Administration's fears of overexpenditure are unjustified, especially since the appropriation is spread over a five-year period," Farber added...