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When the B-29's Pilot George Jensen got the bomber up to 20,000 ft., the crew topped off the rocket plane's tanks with 45 gallons of "lox" (liquid oxygen), fuming and fiercely cold. That much lox had evaporated since the tanks were filled on the ground, and this climax flight would need every gallon. At 25,000 ft., three men lowered Bridgeman, bulky with his high-altitude gear, into the Skyrocket's cockpit...
Heir Apparent. In El Paso, the new Providence Memorial Hospital's expectant fathers' room was equipped with two oxygen outlets...
...rising in the center to house its radar, periscope and snorkel (which is a convenience, not a necessity, on an atomic submarine). Inside, the SSN will open up an entirely new world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing room to freshen the air its crew breathes. There will be vast space for the complex array of dials and electronic gadgets, huge torpedo rooms to hold a school of homing torpedos. The familiar throbbing diesel engines will be gone. Instead, a single atom...
There was no perhaps about it. Dr. Michalek had given tenfold doses of methadon to both Clifford and Mrs. Pearson. He injected antidotes, and stimulants (oxygen, Benzedrine, adrenalin) were given later in Dakota Hospital. But within 24 hours of what started as a routine experiment, Dr. Michalek stood by Clifford's bedside as he died, then at Mrs. Pearson...
...another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds in titanium-bearing ore. But turning it into metal is an immensely difficult process. It reacts so violently with oxygen that the ingots must be melted in a vacuum, or under a blanket of inert...