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These are only a few of the myriad new uses; man also employs the gases to fire rockets, sterilize rooms, freeze ice cream and produce soda bubbles. Food processors use liquid hydrogen to stiffen oils into shortening through "hydrogenation." Steelmakers are taking big gulps of pure oxygen in their furnaces to speed melting. In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations...
...rolling downhill toward the boy. His father lunged to shove him clear. Fred was unharmed, but his father was killed. A few months later Fred was in Baylor Hospital with much more routine trouble: bleeding inside his knees. The familiar hemophilic difficulty had caused the joints to swell and stiffen; surgeons had to cut them open to clean them out. Transfusions helped Fred to recover, and, just as it does with most bleeders, the temporary supply of AHG in the transfused blood did the necessary clotting...
...publishers, like the NATO allies, operate on the principle that an attack on one is an attack on all; and when the I.T.U. called strikes at four New York dailies last December, five others voluntarily stopped their presses. Now, said Bradford, Dolly's action "is bound to stiffen the union's position and may well prolong the strike. It is going to be more difficult for us to persuade the unions to arrive at a settlement that will permit all the newspapers to continue...
...shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine gun as a gift...
...perpetuates the very extravagance and waste that spell financial disaster. Said the report darkly: if Fleet Street's willingness to go along with union featherbedding "were to form the pattern for all industries, it would be disastrous to the economy of the nation." The commission urged publishers to stiffen their resistance to labor, even suggested a way: the same united-front defense that prevails in many U.S. cities, where, by management agreement, all papers stop publishing when one is struck...