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...Japanese Armies have driven beyond many of their homes, they still do business in Chinese dollars. Moreover the Chinese dollar, convertible into foreign exchange as the yen is not, has the support of British financiers, remains the dominant money of China. For 14 months the Japanese have tried to supplant it with Federal Reserve notes in North China, military notes in Central and South China, and have recently announced a new bank of issue, the China Commercial Promotion Bank, whose notes are to circulate in the financial citadel of Shanghai itself...
...gastric ulcers, childbirth, jaundice and kidney and lung infections. In every case bleeding stopped within five minutes, the normal coagulating time, even though the patients had been bleeding as long as two hours. In many cases bleeding ceased within 45 seconds of injection. Oxalic acid thus appeared likely to supplant snake venom, sterol (solid alcohol) and other makeshift coagulants, likely to save thousands of lives every year...
...rubber for its accessories; some cars have as many as 300 rubber parts. And these do not include a new rubber spring Goodrich is perfecting, a new rubber shock absorber of Firestone's, or the industry's current prize hope-sponge rubber cushions, which it believes will supplant horsehair, coil springs and other upholstering material not only in cars but in mattresses and furniture...
...potent military significance. Logistics experts calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...
...Committee for Pneumonia Control, told the Kings County Medical Society that he had used M. & B. 693 with striking success in several cases of highly fatal Type III pneumonia. Moreover, said Dr. Cecil enthusiastically, the new English tablets appear to be effective against many types of pneumonia, may soon supplant expensive serums which have to be made specifically for each type of the disease...