Word: hotbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying to sell, and he cannot escape the relentless pursuit of a gun moll named Tory (Shelley Winters...
They had found that the most effective way was a combination of penicillin shots and artificial fever treatment. Patients were put in a conventional "hotbox," their temperatures raised to 106°F. for three three-hour periods; they were given a total of 1,200,000 units of sodium penicillin during 7½ days. The treatment worked in 82.1% of the cases. When patients were given the same amount of penicillin in the same period, without fever treatment, results were only 70.4% effective. But the fever did not speed up the treatment. When patients were given the same amount...
...secret of the body's resistance to heat is its own cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
...hotbox alumni got as high marks as the professor; some vomited, suffered extreme fatigue and sensations of suffocation. The thing to worry about is the temperature of the blood moving toward the brain. Professor Taylor thinks this would give the best warning signal of approaching collapse under heat...