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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
HOW SCIENCE STUMBLED HOW SCIENCE
ON A
SUBSTITUTE FOR BLOOD
By RONALD RIPLEY
Do you know what your blood group is?
Probably not. At one time it might have been a matter of importance, because if you are given a transfusion of the wrong kind of blood serious results can occur.
Leaving out certain complien- tions, there are four main blood groups. Inbelled A. V, AB, and 9. Blood of the A group can be mixed only with A or Q blood: Bblood can be mixed only with Borbloed; AB Ill receive any of the other kinds of blood; Ở blood can be mixed Takezoek..
can
AIR-SEA RESCUE
GADGET MAY
with any of the other SAVE LIVES
So you can gep that in an
gency whats there is 603
tinue to make tests, the C) Elrodj
the most useful.
Amsterdam,
There are ble lanks atERRIT STADA, D
hospitals in many countries, and new methula have teets fr sturing blad. But it is es- pensive Pad for all The generosity of blood donors thes is work
ugh of Are M
your old
51- nauticol for
rescue-
warks I engineer who
the waterways department thinks he has come up with a plan to improve $t. Island everywhern casily availible in aerisss how- ever and there are vast areas of the work where there are no blood stocks at wil.
LONG TIME
ssibilities at tea, in large o icrted arcos, or in mountainous terrain.
n
Stada built
automatic hencher for rocket fights of smoke signals some 94 cartridges can be stocked in . and they
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 19 1958.
TRADE
and
COMMERCE SECTION
Weekly Report On American Economy
Recession Hasn't Hit Bottom Yet
New Set of HONGKONG WALL
Unfavourable
Reports
New York, May 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE
Government economists, faced by a new set
of
business unfavourable
reports, admitted last wook that the US transactions were: business recession has not yet touched bottom.
The reports included
The Commerce Depart
the gross national ment sald product fail $10.0 bilion during the nest quarter of this year to
ap-
Noon
Our Own Correspondent Business done on the Hong- kong Btock Exchange this morning amounted 16
$301,000. proximately quoiations and this morning's
Shares
DANKS
Buyer Sellers
Sales
HK Jank
1
775 10 770 10 770
Kant Asia INSURANCES Union KD..
273
+
Wheelocks.
of Business Lagum, President Economies, Inc., and Chester F. Ogden, Chairman of the Bus!- ness Survey Committee of the Purchasing Agents Organisation. SPING anal rate nf 422 billion, They based their qualified op- the lowest since the third quartimism on Indications of the end noCKS, ETC.
liquidation later. Whart.. ter of 1050, and two billion lower of inventory Bam the estimate made a month this year, a gradual increase in ago by the President's Council government spending, and main- tenance of a high level of can- sumer spending United Press.
of Economie Advisers.
The Federal Reserve hard said its industetal produc- tion index fell by mother wo point in April-the same rate of
can be fred at pre-set intervals † decline as in March and a point
offer pushing one titles.
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the experimental Type, the power that tumis The wheel with the A holes was taken from the movement
For a very g thine research ៦៥. been going on to And
substitute cheap and effective
bland, for
particularly For emergency Unsfusions. Early on i was discovered that what the victim Ruffering from shoek waves, which was transported and loss of blood really needed. and amplified to turn the wheel was more fluid, not necessartly and has take the US holes, with blood, to maintain the cireula- their cartridges, past the string, Į tion. Innumerable experiments pin. In the prototype a small were carried out to try and And battery supplies power to a The trouble | sinall electric motor, thật turne a suitable liquid. was that nearly all liquids that the wheel with a ofe-determin- were not actually harmful when
able speed. injected into the blood stream were so quickly got rid of by the PIN-STRIKER- kidneys that they were of little cr no use. -
As a result of a lot of patient research there is now at least
acceptable
ne
When the bottom of u ear-
Kovernment
The below от
#water than economists had expected. index was 12 per cent last Aprli, and 19 points abent 13 per cent down from inst August's peak. The drop centred in automalles, primary metals mari voluằng.
Steel Output
• Steel outp for the In- whole fell to 5.5 dentry as a million tons in April, the lowest for any non-strike month since May, 1948, and 123,022 tons e- low March, The foln was 4.2 millon tous less than the April,
1953, ngare,
tridge muves leward the firing pin it is "charged" into its Bring | position. The pin strikes when
• Stocks staged the sharpest the cartridge substitute.
is above it, and
break in two months under the dextran, which is being widely this fres the signal.
pressure of uncertainties in the used not only in emergencies but
Gerell Stada has tried his doncstle and International busi- also before and after surgical
machine
ness picture. gradually operations 39 guard against
#light- the effects of shock, and also in perfected it.
contraption which a number of diseases such as weight
works automatically. Depending dysentery and cholera which re- sult in the body being drained on the type of Fight or smar cartridges used, the signals may of ikukis.
seen from a distance of 20, 40 or 60 miles
Dextran has had en history.
add
it and
It is
One of the Government's top ecutiomists, seeking to evaluate the situation,
Bank Of France Statement
Block ...... [vitent (D)
HK Hotel.
LAND, ETC.
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*1
503
200 104
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#14 11.00
18.00 18.70
In Land. 3201 2231
Humpireys
131
healty
RUBDER Amaly.
UTILITIES
1321
STREET DEALERS-
CONCENTRATE ON LOW-PRICED ISSUES
By ELMER WALZER
New York, May 18. Stocks declined on reduced volume during the past week. Sales volume concentrated on the low-priced issues. The top four in turnover made up 11 per cent of the
Two of them were in. volume and averaged 8% a share. the $5 class.
♫
To find a recognised market General Motors drow up in part of it concentrated cathe Volume fell to 11th 11th place with a toss of a potut.' inw-priced issues. Leader one had to go place in volume. The top ten Bethlehem and US Sieel were on Thursday when prices re- It was light again en produced a sales pggregate, ut jo, 12th and 13th places respce-covered. 2,238,200 shares or 17 per centively and each dippert nearly a Eriday when the market slipped of the 13,308,453 shares traded, point, Jersey Standard, in 14th a bit, 0318.70 The latter figure compared with position, was down 1% on the Market experts said the list la
the previous week's 14,103,810 | week.
in a difficult position just now. dividend They hold that if it can
2004 321
* 178 *** 000
shpres.
Most of
There were a few the nelives gained. 1.525 1.55 00.000 1.69 Hoyal Dutch, an exception, lost casualties during the week and negotiate the 470 level In the
case of n
or industrial average it would have cut 17 and Shell Transport lost in ench
Blocks involved fell the background for a substantial nearly a point on the Mid-East omission 3 40 16 14 1.35
more than a point, Kennecolt extension of the advance. muddle. American Motors in
on Friday second place touched a new high ran up two points at 14% and then cored to 13% when its directors declared the as of 1 for the week on profit usust dividend. I lost a point
on the week. 17.30 Laking.
Tram 24.00 24.70 1,200 (2224.70 Star Ferry. 112 323 Yourafi
50
C. 1720 17.30 1200
Paris. May 18. The Bank of France statement for the week endod May 7, reads į
fablow
Eleciste
Franc 201204,302,420
11,313,324,406 † Tajephone
21,771 £30 £30
INDUSTRIALS
Tern Cement
4יו
Total gold holdings. Total ther currencies Sight balance attaull
In EPU Advance to Stabilisa-
tion Fund........ Total bills discounted 1,010,064,381,211 Rope
tion Barotes un pircula-
.............. 3.205,978,305,075 STORES, ETC.
Dalry Current accounts and
deposits
401.433.295,001} Walser. United Press.
Kwong S. H. COTTONS Textile ** Nanyang
Bank Of England
Statement
Sterling 2,020,000,040
London, May 18. The Bank of England state- said It seemed ment for the week ended May had 14, reads as follows: clear that the downtrend slowed but not halted. He said Nater in eirculation he did not expect the stump to Public depasite level off for another two months. Pelvafe diposits
con-riment securities The total picture was fused, however, for there were cipt favourable un well as unfavour-Bato"
Plus signs included:
It was first identified
Stada today saíd that his by Pasteur in 1961, but if wax
apparatus might be very useful known long before that is a
in board a ship. An oil-tanker | abi factors. nightmare problem in The H
the deert or a plane Lecture of sugar. It is, In Taet. lost in
mountain vide a gum produced by a slimy jerashed
sometimes should be easily located when forms in the process of reining his automatic signaling muchine sugar. Pasteur discovered that starts working, ⚫ this fermentation was caused by
lerobe.
fermentation
a
that
on
Stodo has applied for palents in Holland. Belgium, Germany, England and the United States, was ofÜnited Press,
The sugar industry erurse interested in how to get rid of the microbes, but no one particularly interested in
WWS
the dextran they produced, until TV-RADIO-GRAM
the chemists began searching for
a suitable material to make up
blood substitute.
ADVANTAGE
great advantage
n
dextran for this purpose is that
SET FOR
Steel production last week amounted to 1,334,000 tons or 49.4 per cent of capacity, the highest level since late March. Output fur this week was ex- peeled to be even of capaelly.
Adjusted Rate
Housing Blorts in April amounted to 90,706 units, a sea- ronally adjusted rate of 950,000 yearly, which was 8 per cent above March. But the rate was still 33 per cent below the 1954
bigh. ITALIAN HOMES
by chemical arllon it can be A
broken up into molecules of the
lo sinall, the dextran tarins a sclution that either escapes from
Personal Income on an overall basis increased in March and Roma. April for the Best me stace under "REVOLUTIONARY " inst August, but largely
the influence of unemployment television-radio-grom- payments and social security
making it thick and sticky, and scribers in Italy. may injure certain organs, It The set, numed "Telerad", was the molecules are the right size,
the transfusion will be got, rid presented at this year's edition the body of Milan's glant sample fair and of ly alowly, and Thus has the necessary respite toaccording to expert opinion reenver and build up its blood exactly what the Italian radio supply ngain. In the first 24 and television, monopoly needed
of the to further boost their cxcreted. I audiences;
growing
ment.
and
Other Recurifles
INVESTMENTS
Allied
TOPPED MARKET
Studebaker Parkard topped 20.29 the market i turtuver and ran 26.10 up 1% points to 3%, a gain for 28.10|the week of more than 20- per
Motors, cent. Continental third place, gained 1% points.
500
17.20
Coa
71 $ 20.70
500
20.70
20 20 1,700
500
1,000
22.30
131
10 14.20
200 10.10
10 20
1
02 + 157
4.50
8.45 1.60
4.3%
Exchange Rates
5.70
Business was done in the local uno Tetal archange market thi morning at the following rates:- ZHI K12,748 .9. dollar (per $1) 248,224,850 Sterling notes iper Eli
Australian exten (per £1 30.077.823 32,135.310 Indonesian rupiah (per 1007
10. Son tical (per 100) United Prek Singapore (Straits)
GREY GOODS
TRADING SLACKENS
fobries re
10,00 12.30
in
Review Of
London
Stock
Market
London, May 18. 8.30 The stock markets have had
213 50
1.80
a very quiet week. The Financial Times Index of industrials closed on Mon- day night, a fortnight ago. at 167.8 last Monday it again closed at 167.5. This Friday saw it again at 167.8.
April. New York, May 18.
it
μας
The market was at ita worst
FIRST DECLINE
At the week's close the in-
on Wednesday when malcontenta dustrial average stood at 457,30 of South American nations were off 5.40 points; raliroads 111.08 insulung Vice-President Nixon off 2.88 points; utilities, 77.02 oft stocks 158.04 of Lebanon was in
and 45 turmoil; and 0.22; was reported on the 2.02 points. Pronce verge of civil war.
MARKET RALLIED
JI
It was the first decline for the market in six weeks. The market last week closed at a new high since Sept, 20, 1957 in Непее. the composite average.
was considered vulnerable to adverse news developments.
On
the Thursday
markel rallied
when the Middle East
.Nixoo kot caimed,
ble welcome on his return from a "goodwill" tour, and Russla sent The gains of 528 issues with a new satellite into orbit, Wall 164 unchanged for a total of 692 Street recalled how the first just about matched the 703 entellile shook the market. This declines. There were 234 new
one went unnoticed.
contained
and
highs for the year set and 31 new iowa.
The business news somo favourable items such as The net changes in the in- held to amali weekly gains in automobile out- |dividual issues
output,amounts for the most part. put, car loadings, steal
con Many of the leading industrials output, struction.
fell two points or more, includ- Trading Was heavy-more ing Du Pont, Eastman Kodak
Union
Steels Carbide. than 3,000,000 shares-when the and market was weakest but a large yielded fractions-United Press.
electricity
Cotton Futures
Have Less
Active Week
By WILLIAM T. PLUNKETT
New York, May 18. of Cotton futures operated from defensive position in that
the United States
less active dealings this past week. would raise its buying price for
talk
Despite a smart rally at the weekend, the list at Friday's close was still off 10 to 42 points-50 cents to $2.10 a bale-compared with the preceding week.
A more lavourable turn in the
British Governments edged up slowly, reflecting a small steady hivestment demand. The Finan cial Times index rose 0.35 to
its 82.74, but it is still under 1958 peak of 83.04, touched Inf
ODDITY Grey goods trading slackened last week after a
mixed start. Print cloth fabrics, pivoting on the sign of American baying of
One oddity of the week the basic 80-square construction, developed gold shares and the revival sporadic activity and a firmer undertone. Elsewhere, new business was used in making grey goods. gold. The sterling price of gold right size. If the inolecules are aphono sot, produced by a benefits. Wage and salary pay-
Sellers of Prices about two cents a yard in London closed on Friday, at in rate of $35.124, the highest North Italian industrial ments actually continued to de-spotty", at best.
sheetings, drills, twills, asal- below first quality have bren
50211 since the bulllor the blood stream into the body firm, is expected to become cine, but at a reticed their burgs and the wide heavy quoted on some fabrics available level rooper.ed Неге เก fissurs, ur is rapidly excreted the instrument for a rapid cording to the Commerce Depart- weight industrial
for certain ses," brokers said market the kidneys.
Cotton sales yarn spinners re- March, 1954. through
If the increase in the number of i
But France's troubles and Many industrials, swimming aired mostly in the doldrums.
ported, little change in the slow m:ciecules are 100 large, they
10 The trend in the non-apparel | buying and
After ungging for four days in selling pace those in Lebanon dominoted the affect the viscosity of the bloud television and radio sub-, against the tide, continued
enjoy high earnings and were
fabrics wus keenly disappointing | apparent for some time past, city without, tor the present,
the crop plcture, created by the a row, the market reverend the even expanding their operations. Brokers
return of cicar and warmer trend on Friday, but fell short estimated print cloths Bulk of the current business is finding much reflection in Typical of such Industries were
sales last week as "substantial."attributed to hosiery and under-stock markets. packers,
At the lows, Buyers of government stocks Weather over most of the grow of erasing all of the previously pharmaceutical Frequen. inquiries appeared for wear knitters.
Ing area, brought persistent suffered loss€8. Last week saw most of the long-realising following the food
recent the list was off as much os yard on 80- firms, llities, high fidelity audio several million"
a bale from the highs is equipment Banufacturers
term issues up about 10/-, with rise to the best level in almost $3.00 SHUT DOWN squares for spol and through the
all of them upproaching their 5 years for the new crop reached the preceding week. third quarter.. Spot sales were toburro companics,
Automotive News reported
1958 highs (though still well months. made at 17% to 17% cota, with that US car production last week premium quality going as high said they were down to three highs).
Spintors of industrial yarna below their 12-month 1957-30
FIRST ORDER Moreover,
range long will hit a six-week
of at 174 cents. ·
warmer Rolls-Royce rained days, or less, a week, with some 00,000 units, 11.2 per cent high-
ether British-American Sellers stubbornly maintanod mills shut down every
Tobacco and weather for May with about the er than fast week's 78,508, but
While the Senate Agriculture stlii 31.4 per cent below the pro- the mark-up made after the week.
Unilever 2/- and a large num-normal amount of precipitation.
In the lower two-thirds of the Committee has scheduled the The Telerad, in fact is not duellon for the same week last market hit a 12-year low
Hard fibres were mixed. Bar- her 1/Dunlops, Ford Motors,
Marks Woolworth and mechanical
several weeks ago.
and belt, with cool temperatures and start of hearings on long range scientists in merely the
lap prices were steady with re-
normal moisture in the upper farm legislation or May 26, several countries have studied bln. tion of three different units,
BAG SHEETING ports that Buenos Aires might Spencer.
third.
with cotton to be the first order OILS FELL allow receipt of burlap already
of business. dextran, and have developed but consists of a single unit in which nurt of the electronic propurations differing in some
afloat to Argentino, Sisal firmed
Oils fell steadily all week. mainly. In
needed to pick up
Bag sheeting fabrics continued with the South African market. Royal Dutch lost and the molecular equipment respects,
Raw cotton exports for the size. The preparation developed television shows is also used to
handlers reported
technicians Crop es a result of the original work listen to radio programmes and while, polled the managements to be the bleakest part of the Hemp
called season through May 13 totalled of 100 'major industrial
textile picture. While producers slightly improved demand from others Shell Transpart, Burmah com- in Britain is called intradex: it to play records.
Oll and British Pretroleum-be-attention to the fact that soll,620,903 bales compared with tween 2/- und 3/-. For the price of a television panies on their opinions of the have kept cutting back on pro consumers. sightly different from the
The survey duction, brakers sald they still
bank participation is relatively 0319,870 bales to the same time rolutions of dextran produced in sot, Italians will therefore enjoy recovery outlook.
themselves accumulating
Rayon grey goods prices con- Foreign bonds saw very little low in the Far West; where the 1st Dean, according to the
tendency octivity. GerIYLA NIJ Sweden and America, but they the services of three different showed that 42 per cent of the ind
all closed all work effectively.
Industrial executives anticipated inventories. The baste problem linued with a rising
con-unchanged, but there was some yield per abre normally is for New York Cotton Exchange. This price factor is of enor- an upturn in November, while in sheeting is the loss of the bag noted in several standard
The outlook for exports next structions. A lot of nylon sheer irregularity in the Japanese. above the national average. The main belt, whare yiekis
statisticia Dextran has three great mous Importance in a country 13 per cent belleved there would trade to paper competition.
business reportedly was placed The non-assenleds of the 1809sistorically are low, shows the season, advantages-t
Since Jan, 1, 1950, sheeting at lower prices with the same and 1907's both rose £1, white highest percentage of woll bank calculated the DOR can be used where the cost of a television be no appreciable upturn, ex-
Thosizo of 1938 · foreign without testing for blood groups; or a radio set is the only factor cept for Christmas buying, be-mills have taken 3,000 looms out
sellers now quoting one to two that of the 1830's rose. On subscriptions.
crop; 2. Revival of foreign It has no harmful effects; it will preventing a taster spread of fore next year.
of production. About 800 loome Slow recovery during the lathave been skifted to other types
conta higher.
the other hand, the news insulatedha
With boll kerp indefinitely in any climate. these two media of information
weevil numbers demand for American cotton; 3. In woollen
worsted of the Tokyo 5 peroende fall £1 and ter part of 1050 was predicted of goods. The other 3,000 stabies, sicos on autumn tires and that of the 1910's fell £. low and with feriiliation The course of lagging general It la an odd twist that the According to latest statistics, by a panel of economists portiel- have beers covered and taken
continued dim.. In raw woei, {The essenteda moved fractiona! heavy, the average yieki per business activity skroad. same microbe that has caused the
has pating in the Chicago convention out of production completely.
markets Ly.
this year could exoseci practically all foreign
Tomixded that Statisticious subscribers of the National Association 1,000,000
best Dollar slocks moved in step substantially the previous bigh. the sugar industry great losses nearly
In wide coating fabrics, sone held firm. Prices on the over the years is now working | three years after the start of its Purchasing Agents. Those basting
wools advanced with Well Street. The premium with anothing dikke favourable stocks of Ardertown datbly noor overline in the service of regular daily programmes. Radio part were Martin Rt. Gainsbruch, producers reportedly have been | Australian
United Press.. more sub-subscribers were
than chief economist, national indus-enabled to quote lower prices about two cents for the week-naredi 4 per cept to 5% per weather conällions - hervedkar, to foreign- poris ere/large/ mankind-to produce
| cetil-Unibod Preis.
crop experta pointed out. stitute for blood.
trial conference board; John K. because of "off colour cotton" United Press,
HC0:4 about a quarter dextrań transfusión s
All of it bas gone at the end of three or four days, There are thus no after-effects,
15
Destora and
..
TELERAD
Com-
Instruments of enterichment.
and entertainment.
Itplian television
| 8,000,000,--United Press.
year.
Anticipated
Dun and Bradstreet,
high
mean
of
0
the
3/6, forecast promised
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