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Acquisition of the funds brings the total made available to the School by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to more than $250,000. This latest gift will be used over a three-year period to study the relation of respiration and oxygen therapy to poliomyelitis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Discloses $30,000 Gift for More Polio Study | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

Shortly after nightfall the first 30-man crew shouldered the straps of oxygen tanks, pulled on masks and walked like Martians to the big cage elevator. It began its 540-ft. descent. After that, every four hours, night & day, a new rescue crew went down. Every four hours a black-faced, exhausted gang came up and terror hung in the tipple as women studied their faces. After a while bodies came up, too, each one on a stretcher, and each covered, neatly, but not warmly, by a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in Main West | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Equipment on the rescue truck includes a two way radio, oxygen, blankets, first aid materials and even rubber boats to rescue victims floundering in lakes and rivers

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gas-Filled Rooms and Heart Attacks An Old Story to Local Rescue Squad | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...innumerable remedies for seasickness suggested by medicos and inventive travelers (ranging from champagne-drinking to an oxygen mask), perhaps the most picturesque is that of George Bernard Shaw, who, in his traveling days, claimed that he got complete immunity by padding along the deck, knees sagging, with a relaxed, apelike gait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bounding Main | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: What Comes Naturally | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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