Word: oxygenate
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...sharpest eye specialists plugged away at the problem. Some blamed too early exposure to light; some suspected insufficient vitamins, and a few insisted that an unidentified virus was to blame. Then, in 1951, Dr. Thaddeus S. Szewczyk of East St. Louis, Ill. suggested that careful control of incubator oxygen might control the disease...
...inquiry quickly focused on oxygen. At Harvard, experiments with mice proved that too little oxygen at critical stages of fetal development caused a host of abnormalities, including a condition similar to R.L.F. In Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Kate Campbell recalled that R.L.F. had first appeared in Women's Hospital when new incubators were installed and all premature babies began to get liberal doses of oxygen. In Birmingham, England, doctors pointed out that the incidence of R.L.F. rose when premature infants began to get larger and longer doses of oxygen. When oxygen was reduced, the frequency of the disease decreased...
...Strughold raises the question with restraint. Mercury, says he, is far too hot to bother with. From Jupiter to Pluto, the other planets are frozen stiff. Only Mars and Venus could support life. But the little that astronomers can see suggests that the Venusian atmosphere has neither oxygen nor water. Mars alone is worth investigating...
...Martian atmosphere also seems to lack oxygen. This fact alone, says the careful physiologist, rules out all higher forms of life-as earthlings understand life. Warm-blooded "little men from Mars," therefore, will probably never try to invade New Jersey. But Martian plant life (e.g., mosses and lichens that can manufacture their own oxygen) is entirely possible. From this distance, there is not" much more to be learned about the far-off planet that looks pale red to the naked eye. If rocket riders ever get to Mars, says Dr. Strughold, the first explorer to return will be able...
...fastest manned aircraft are rocket planes like the Bell X-1 and the Douglas Skyrocket (1,238 m.p.h.), but these experimental jobs fly under rocket power at altitudes where the air is too thin for the oxygen-breathing engines of operational planes. Their flights do not count as official records, which must be made over a measured course close to the ground...