Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...
Modified globin, one of the newest substances used in transfusions, was described by Dr. Max Maurice Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. It is made from red blood cells, keeps well in salt solution, is so successful in preventing blood fluid from leaking into the tissues (as in wound shock) that, if globin were made along with plasma, each blood donation would go four times as far as at present...
General Sanders. At 28, Richard C. Sanders is the youngest general officer in the U.S. Army and probably the youngest since Custer, who got his star at 24. World War I was already well under way when Sanders was born (in Salt Lake City), and less than two months before Pearl Harbor he was still a second lieutenant. These facts are all the more remarkable because he is not a West Pointer. But in the University of Utah's R.O.T.C. he was an "A" student in military science and tactics. The only civilian job he ever had was running...
...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...
Arthur Adams '99, who died during the past year, was secretary of his class for 44 years; the silver was presented by his classmates to the University. The Georgian pieces include a large urn and two smaller salt dishes, which will be kept in Adams House on display...