Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory is that certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer are caused by germs that can grow only in the "absence of free oxygen. The corollary of this theory is that if the body tissues are made to absorb and carry enough air, the oxygen will prevent such germs developing. So Dr. Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others...
...air and needs to land, where can one be assured of finding an open field with service facilities...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones...
Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...
Years ago, in the cliff-perched village of Sciacca on the island of Sicily, the boy Bellanca watched ships cut the sea and kites cut the air. There was a similarity, he thought. He made his kite fly horizontally, like a glider. His imagination roamed-"a little fan in front, and I could fancy it there flying by itself...