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Injected into a man's veins, purified dextran has plasma's ability to combat shock by maintaining the volume of blood in the veins. The dextran molecules are too large to leak out readily through capillary walls, and at the same time they attract water, hold it in the blood...
...turrets big enough to accommodate both guns and gunner; the job of aiming by hand in a rushing slipstream is taken over by powerful machinery ; the gunner can be warm and comfortable at his work inside the B-29's cabin, insulated from the shock and noise of his rattling armament...
That assault was a model of sound tactics. First a shock unit rowed across the river at night, set up a small defense perimeter before German patrols caught on. By the time the Germans could muster local reserves, the Russians were moving in light guns and mortars. When the Russians held firm, the Germans called in more troops from other sectors along the river bank. In an area thus weakened, the Russians drove through a new crossing. Now the alarmed Germans began reaching back for strategic reserves, but the Russians, working quickly, joined the two bridgeheads, consolidated communications across...
...Bellinger of General Electric Co., showed a picture of the air disturbances at the muzzle of a gun at the moment of firing (see cut). The knots near the muzzle are the hot, expanding gases expelled from the barrel. The long, dark, curved line ahead of them is the "shock wave" of compressed air created when an object travels faster than sound (the smaller curved line at the top of the picture is a shock wave caroming off a metal plate). This phenomenon, which airmen know as "compressibility," has thus far prevented airplanes from flying faster than sound (TIME, July...
Last fortnight General Electric announced the newest-silicone rubber (of which bouncing putty is one form). Because of its great resistance to heat, silicone rubber is better than natural rubber for many purposes. The Army is using it for gaskets on turbosuperchargers, the Navy for shock absorbers for the glass lenses in searchlights-both uses for which no previous material had filled the bill...