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...same Bulletin Commander Melvin Dewey Abbott and Lieut. John Randolph Gepfert report using medicated human blood plasma as a burn dressing. They got the idea from the light yellow blood serum which exudes from any deep burn and acts as a soothing, protective coating. They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns. "The results were very definitely better than those obtained by the use of any one of the many methods in vogue during the past two years...
Controversy developed. Joseph Chamberlain, Board of Trade president, favored the project until he lunched, one day, in the dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...
...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
...mistake when they carefully repaint cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not many doctors realize that one consequence of the plumbic passion in children may be stupidity. Last week doctors and parents learned the worst from an article in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, by Dr. Randolph Kunhardt Byers and the late Elizabeth Evans Lord, Ph.D., of Boston...
...Stalin the Great" and saluted the President twice over, as "Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...