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...take away what power he had caught Nelson at a bad time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...
...elected representatives of the citizens of Dearborn, Michigan have torn a leaf from Herr Goebbels' book of horrors. Declaring that no one of Japanese ancestry is capable of becoming anything by a "menace" to the interests of this country, Dearborn officials this week turned thumbs down on a proposal by church groups in that city to bring three American-born Japanese from the West Coast to live in Dearborn for the duration...
...spurting blood, by tourniquet or by a surgical clamp applied directly to the bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around the suture to reinforce...
When a large piece of artery has been torn away, a nearby vein can be tied off and a piece cut out for a patch. (Smaller, "collateral veins" can always take up the circulation of the large ones.) Even when it is impossible to repair an artery, Dr. Pratt continued, amputation is still not inevitable, for, like a vein, an artery can be ligated (tied off from circulation). There is small danger of gangrene if the accompanying vein is also ligated...
...duration. Donald Nelson said frankly that there are not enough raw materials to keep all the plants already built running full tilt, let alone all the new ones. In fact, Robert Nathan, chief of Nelson's Planning Board, believes that some of the half-finished structures should be torn down to recover the materials that were put in them, put them to use in more urgent war needs...