Word: oxygenate
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...state's fledgling Iron & Steel Corp., which will run the industry, had been one of the stars of British free enterprise. Steven Hardie, a brawny, 65-year-old Scot, had risen from an obscure position as a chartered accountant in Glasgow to captain of industry (scrap-metal tycoon, oxygen-tank manufacturer). He owned, among other properties, five farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often as he can for a day's hunting or fishing...
...Molly's" WAF commission is a "rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...
...substitutes. Researchers are now looking frantically for acceptable and plentiful substitutes for plasma. Most injuries caused by atomic bombs (wounds, burns, radiation damage) result in loss of fluids from the blood vessels. The blood does not circulate properly, and the tissues, including the brain, do not get the oxygen and other supplies they need. The result is "shock," which means that the patient's blood volume must be increased promptly to restore circulation...
Sleeping Pupa.The three "cytochrome" enzymes are basic growth factors. Present in human beings as well as in silkworms, they control the utilization of oxygen in the tissues. Without them growth is impossible. The dormant Cecropia pupa contains no cytochrome enzymes. Therefore it cannot grow until they are provided by the chain of hormones that starts in its brain...
...their experiment, the doctors measured the relative amounts of oxygen consumed (and hence energy expended) by 24 patients (15 of them suffering from heart trouble) in alternate use of bedpans and bedside commodes. Their findings: "In all patients . . . there was a consistently greater oxygen consumption ... on the bedpan than on the commode...