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...strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation in the leg. But if the blood supply is choked, the limb or hernia remains dark...
Along the main northern roads in the ebb tide of British Empire our progress was blocked by a leaderless, directionless stream of helpless, pleading, praying, begging, cursing refugees seeking food and comfort and aid to reach India. At other times, at the orders of Stilwell, we plunged into the thickest jungles, striking across unknown trails where the only sounds were the screaming of hordes of unseen monkeys and the slitherings of the brightest green poisonous snakes. Alternately scorched by terrific heat under which several of our party faint ed, and drenched by tropical rains, our ranks were affected by dysentery...
...stopping him. "Aren't you Chairman of the Board?" the president wanted to know. Says Campbell: "I said, 'For Christ's sake, that's eyewash. You run the job. I haven't heard from him since, but we are getting the product in a stream you couldn't believe...
Kindelberger's blast made automen turn rage-red. WPB's auto chief, Ernie Kanzler, branded it "perfectly ridiculous." G.M.'s* Fisher Body division said that it has shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...
...Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that the remaining supply of chicken pies, family style, be thrown into the Charles. While such a policy may render the University liable to the charge of wilfully polluting a stream, nevertheless, the authorities are willing to run this risk for the students' welfare...