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...Cloward used a small suction tube to remove bits of debris, then trimmed off all injured tissue with a knife. If the pieces of metal were close to the surface, they were removed; if small and deeply embedded, they were allowed to remain in the brain, for fear of increasing damage by operation. When the brain was clean, the wound was filled with sulfanilamide powder, and the brain envelope and scalp stitched tight...
...Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...
Ownership of Owens' "suction" process (socalled because molten glass is sucked into a mold by vacuum) passed to Owens-Illinois Glass Co., now largest glass-container manufacturer in the U. S. Patents on the only other successful modern method (the more recent "gob-fed" process in which blobs of molten glass are dropped into molds) have been held by Hartford-Empire. Through cross-licensing agreements, Hartford-Empire gained influence over both methods, placed itself in a position where for all practical purposes no manufacturer could make a single bottle if Hartford-Empire turned thumbs down. Hartford-Empire...
...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...
...Down we went," she told reporters, "with Mr. Miller eyeing his watch. . . . I was in the suction. ... I kept going down, and it kept twisting me around and carrying me down. I fought hard. I am a good swimmer and I finally washed out of the suction. ... I had to have air, I just...