Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal was a plan to set up mental-health centers in every major U.S. community-which might run to a total of 500 or more in the next five years. Even before Congress gets around to implementing the President's ideas, the prospect of federal money for pump priming and pilot plants has set mental-health officials and crusaders in all 50 states to taking stock of where they now stand...
Priming the Pump. Nearly half of the 530,000 Americans in state mental institutions are jammed into hospitals that are so large the patients get no individual care. With a patient-psychiatrist ratio of 360 to 1, effective treatment is almost impossible. The mentally ill remain in the hospitals and get worse. The average stay for schizophrenics is eleven years. With drugs and other new treatments, said the President, two out of three schizophrenics can now be sent home within six months. "If we launch a broad new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade...
...pump its burgeoning oil and gas production from new fields in the Caucasus and Urals, Russia has undertaken a 38,000-mile pipeline network, with two main legs: one westward from Kuibyshev near the Urals to power the factories of Russia's European satellites, the other thousands of miles through Siberia and on to the Pacific. Trouble is, Russia cannot produce all of the big-bore (up to 40 in.) pipe itself; so it has turned to capitalist manufacturers, mostly in West Germany and Italy, for 40% of the 2,500,000 tons of pipe it needs...
...More. The mill wheel was the all-purpose appliance that could run saws, pump bellows, grind grain, keep trip hammers thumping, turn meat spits and rock babies, all at once. Woods were selected according to capability, and when a wagon was built-oak frame, elm sides and floor, ash spokes and shafts, pine seat, hickory slats-it lasted about twelve times as long as a Cadillac...
When Ro Anne's temperature dropped to 82°, her heart stopped beating. The pump was already doing her heart's work and also cooling her blood. It continued to do so while the surgeons put clamps on the aorta both above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature...