Word: oxygenate
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...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...
...Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...
...speaking of Steven Hardie, a brawny Scot who looks like a hard-boiled egg and is a steel-tough taskmaster with a canny eye for profits. Glasgow-born Steven Hardie parlayed his World War I separation pay into one of Britain's biggest industrial fortunes. His British Oxygen Co. monopolizes British industrial gas production; his Metal Industries Ltd. is Europe's biggest ship-breaking business. Hardie of Ballathie owns five large farms in Scotland, two ranches in Rhodesia, another in Australia. He became a Socialist in 1946; four years later, Clement Attlee picked him to run Britain...
...Brucker, 27, intern in "Female Admitting," shook his head and patted the brother on the shoulder. The woman was wheeled away, for oxygen and digitalis, and more detailed examination. The next case, a woman with an injured leg, arrived in a wheelchair...
...take a turn for the worse and die in the night). The 70-year-old heart patient who wanted God to take her was in the hands of a girl intern, who found she was also suffering from cancer of the breast. "I've got her on oxygen, digitalis and aminophyl-line," the intern said. "Later, I'll get X-ray consultation on the cancer. But I scarcely know what's keeping her alive...