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...Strato-Suit" developed by the late Major John G. Kearby of the Air Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...
Pete had read in a book that oxygen peps you up. Realizing "how full a fight arena is of people, all of 'em exhaling carbon dioxide, and most of 'em smoking," he decided his boys weren't getting enough fresh air. So Pete pushed a small tank on wheels into the Hollywood American Legion Stadium, fed his fighter oxygen between rounds. The fighter, Bantamweight Benny Goldberg, punched out an easy victory over Luis Castillo and stayed fresh to the last bell...
...scientist (Spencer Tracy) who got burned by the persistence of a bad love affair and a widow (Katharine Hepburn) who got frozen by the termination of a good marriage. Without love, they get along so well as they work together on the scientist's high-altitude oxygen mask that they decide to marry. Without love, marriage, too, looks like a perfect setup-for a while...
...hours; altitude zero. Noticed mouse in radio room. 1150 hours; 10,000 feet: crew taking oxygen. Mouse okay. 1310 hours; 22,000 feet: mouse cold so I'm putting him in my heated muff. He's pretty drowsy. 1325 hours; 25,000 feet: mouse unconscious. Fleas show activity. Target bombed. 1510 hours; 20,000 feet: mouse stirring. 1600 hours; 10,000 feet: mouse running around radio room. 1630 hours; altitude zero: gunner just salvoed mouse out of plane. When last seen mouse and fleas were doing okay...