Word: reservoirs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fourth-draft registrants will have no order numbers or lottery, will not be inducted into military service. They will, however, provide a vast new reservoir of skilled and unskilled labor which tall, tanned, handsome Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt plans to tap freely as the defense industry manpower shortage becomes more acute...
WASHINGTON--The United States, imperiled by the greatest war of all time, added, 9,000,000 more men to its reservoir of potential fighting power today by completing the registration of all men between 20 and 44 inclusive. sive...
...reservoir of men, who will be able to serve in the defense of the University in case of air raids, will be built up by a new program coordinating all student ARP effort through the Houses and the Freshman Union Committee...
Last week, in Ohio, CAPsters air-patrolled two gas mains which supply nitroglycerine plants, air-guarded a reservoir near Youngstown. CAP enrollments had reached 15,000, were coming in at the rate of 800 a day. A "wing commander" had been appointed in every State. CAP said it could use some 100,000 non-flying recruits: as ground crews, as drivers to taxi Army pilots from railroad stations to airports, in humdrum but necessary office work...
Blood 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...