Word: oxygenate
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...from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth as dense. Hence a 1,000-h.p. motor seven miles up will deliver only a puttering 250 h.p. without artificial respiration...
...first tried on a wide variety of bacterial infections. At present its use is limited mainly to meningitis, erysipelas, urinary-tract infections. It is easy to take, "well handled by the body and excreted without difficulty," but it brings about two "exceedingly common" complications: anemia and cyanosis (lack of oxygen). On the whole, it is "less effective therapeutically than other related compounds and is being supplanted by them." It is the only sulfonamide compound which can be given rectally with success...
...cases from the British Purchasing Commission. Soon he was also making about $1,000 worth of aluminum castings a week for Army Signal Corps and aircraft companies. Last week he completed his jump from basement to big time. To his company went a $1,010,000 British order for oxygen regulators for fighting planes. Scott will get most of the parts from subcontractors, will hire 50 new workers to assemble them in a new $20,000 plant...
...Added six items to its priorities critical list (some 300 materials on which Army and Navy get first call): rubber and rubber goods, fire-prevention and fire-fightins; equipment, Halowax (for insulation), neat's-foot oil, hospital and field laboratory equipment, portable oxygen units...
...frequent cause of accidents is altitude sickness. Most fliers still believe that their altitude tolerance is the limit to which they can fly without oxygen and not collapse. Actually, oxygen should be taken as low as 10,000 ft. A complete lack of oxygen, for only one minute, say the doctors, may destroy irreplaceable brain cells, produce tiny hemorrhages, degeneration of the adrenal glands...