Word: oxygenate
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...Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first basic oxygen steel furnace in the U.S., in fact, was introduced a decade ago by Detroit's relatively small McLouth Steel...
Other French enterprises in South Viet Nam range from cigarette factories to oxygen plants, from Asia's third-largest brewery to the Societé Vietnamienne du Jute, which turns out 3,000,000 sacks a year for holding the rice crop. Three French banks handle 39% of the country's banking, and 100 or so French firms control its insurance, hotels, cinemas, printing and shipping. French companies also hold part interest in many Vietnamese firms...
...some laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
...Some patients got 24 to 36 medicated aerosols a day, at a cost to the government of $36 to $53; others got $280 to $420 worth of oxygen a week...
...owners of the most modern steelmaking equipment, have 14 ore-to-ingot plants operating at nearly 95% of capacity and another four being built. Japan ranks second to the U.S. in up-to-date strip-mill capacity and produces 38% of its steel by the speedy, economical oxygen process, while only 10% of U.S. steel is made that...