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During the last 50 years doctors have found it almost impossible to repair nerves which have been cut, especially when a section of nerve has been torn away. Chief difficulty has been to bind the severed nerve ends or grafts together: even the finest needles and threads (e.g., blood vessel sutures) lacerate the nerve bundles. Researchers at Oxford in 1940 discarded stitching and used a glue made of chick plasma to bind severed nerves together...
...Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award...
...doubt that Brazil needed new money. In recent weeks a currency shortage has been general, as well as a distortion of the ratio of money minted to money in circulation. The result of hoarding, inflation, illegal withdrawing of "frozen" Axis funds and the sinking recently of an American vessel loaded with new currency made up in the U.S., these conditions had already forced an eight-day bank holiday (TIME, Oct. 12). The time was ripe for a complete overhaul. The Government grabbed the opportunity...
Herman managed to stuff into the rubber suit which he was wearing a 200,000-word manuscript about his life at sea, three cartons of cigarets and a box of 5? cigars. A small British vessel which picked up Herman and his mates was already crowded with U.S., Dutch, Norwegian and Russian survivors. Some of the Russian sailors were women; they valiantly tried to cheer...
Next morning the overburdened little ship ran alongside a larger British vessel. There was no slackening of speed. While both ships pitched on through the seas, the survivors clambered over the sides. Their new refuge was a cruiser. In her seamen's mess forward, the 200 survivors flopped down, drew their first easy breath...