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Naming names and presenting devastating documentary evidence to back up his case, Carlson's story recounts perilous personal sleuthing under the alias of "Robert Thompson, Nationalist Veteran." Despite a lack of technical slickness, the book's of feet is Shock, penetrating with the knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt...
Even before the monsoon had started, Thinh got a shock when his French friends seemed to turn their backs on him. They had dealt directly with Viet Nam without Cochin China representation, causing Dr. Thinh's Government to lose face...
...supersonic speed, Whittle was not as optimistic. The obstacle of the shock wave (which racks a plane as it nears the speed of sound) is still unlicked. Swept-back wings, he felt, would push the speed limit upward, but they could push no plane across the sound threshold...
Heart Specialist Irvine H. Page and Biophysicist Otto Glasser drained more than half of the dogs' blood, kept them in profound shock for two to three hours. Then, in place of the usual transfusion into a vein, they pumped blood into an artery, under pressure. In 70% of the cases, the dogs survived. In one experiment, dogs were bled to the point of death. Twenty out of 23 were revived after they had been clinically "dead" (no heartbeat or breathing) for five minutes...
...working quietly on his experiments for six years, has tried arterial transfusions on 20 human patients, with "very encouraging" results. Some of his patients survived, he says, when "intravenous transfusion would not have done a particle of good." Advantages of arterial transfusion. ¶ It brings the body out of shock quickly. In prolonged shock, said Dr. Page, death is due in large part to failure of the kidneys to secrete urine...