Word: oxygenate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wildly about the still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except by hearsay or reading foreign news. It was like waking suddenly from a long dream, like waking and opening our eyes to the light...
...flying airmen, one mental hazard is the fear of being trapped in a submerged plane after a crash landing at sea-as many an airman has been trapped and drowned. Last week the Army's Air Technical Service Command announced an ingenious device to help trapped flyers: an oxygen mask for breathing under water while they fight clear of the plane...
Captain W. C. Kulesz, of A.T.S.C.'s aeromedical laboratory at Wright Field, had a bright idea: why not use an ordinary portable oxygen cylinder and mask, such as bomber crews wear in high-altitude flight? The captain promptly donned a mask, jumped into a swimming pool. It worked. Further tests showed that with such a mask a man could breathe for 6 minutes at 10 ft. under water, for 3½ minutes at 50 ft. Normally this should give a man, unless he is too badly injured, time to break out of a plane cabin or turret...
...Without Oxygen. U.S. Senators, who usually get no better than a No. 3 priority, heard the official version of Blaze's ride last week. The Air Transport Command's able Major General Harold L. George did his frank best by laying before the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee a carefully detailed account of the animal's voyage by Army aircraft from England to California. Senators noted that the air arms of both the Army and Marine Corps had done their best by Elliott...
...Presque Isle, Me., Blaze was put off the B17, whether because the lack of oxygen had unstrung him or for some other reason. But he was not long marooned. An Army B-25 took him aboard, carried him to New York City's LaGuardia Field. There a Marine Corps pilot picked him up, delivered him safe & sound to Washington. The pilot called the White House and someone sent a station wagon to gather up his passenger...