Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space? The medical experts are willing to believe that rockets can be built to navigate space, but they are not so sure that the human crews can take it. At 50,000 ft., where a jet plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...English, ordered the captain to sit on the floor. Another snapped handcuffs on him. Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then all the ship's officers and forecastle hands, seven in all, were herded into an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. cabin in the bow. There was no toilet, little air, and before dawn the pirates painted the portholes black...
...Dark. As the days went by, the prisoners, crammed in the filth and darkness of the fetid cabin, tried to make out what was going on overhead. One day they heard another boat come alongside. Several days later, they heard the anchor dropping. Later the ship got under way again. Still later, the Combinatie stopped again and another boat came alongside. On the twelfth day, the engines started again but there was no sound of scurry on the deck. Captain Van Delft shouted. There was no answer. He shouted again; no answer. At last, the prisoners were able...
...days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...