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...bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost foaming it, with a stream of oxygen. Then, to get rid of excess bubbles, he let the blood settle slowly in a slightly inclined cylinder and a helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers. It is now-with minor local modifications-the type most widely used in the U.S. (see diagram), though some surgeons...
With nearly $100 billion in assets, U.S. insurance companies are the nation's greatest reservoir of private capital, the dispensers of investments that have an incalculable impact on the U.S. economy. Last year some $10 billion of life insurance funds was invested in the U.S. economy, $1.6 billion of it by Prudential. Almost anyone, big businessman or little, farmer or factory hand, can qualify for a Prudential loan or mortgage. At the top of the Pru's list of borrowers is a Who's Who of U.S. industry: International Business Machines (some $550 million since 1936), General...
...should U.S. buyers travel to Paris for their designs? Not all of them do. But the plain fact is that Paris has a reservoir of skilled needleworkers and a tradition of craftsmanship that no other nation can match-a tradition established largely by the simple fact that no other people have been willing to devote so much time and thought to their clothes...
Four hundred thousand strong, the Army and Air National Guards are the nation's most important reservoir of military manpower. It is the force the nation would depend on for second-line defense in case of an all-out war. Charlie Wilson's statement branding the National Guard as a "draft-dodging business" and the subsequent roar of protest have oversimplified the problem of reorganizing the Guard and intergrating it into the nation's defense system...
...some other students wrote and performed a sharp satire on the wreck of Mt. Olympus (i.e., Russian Communism) and were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about...