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Last week Northwest Airlines got practical about the problem, announced that it was installing plane oxygen systems which will : 1) cure airsickness, 2) prevent heart palpi tation and hard breathing at high altitudes, 3) make flying comfortable at cruising levels up to 30,000 feet, 4) prevent the painful sensation of having one's ears stopped up in descents from flights...
Northwest chose the light-weight (4 oz.), nose-gripping oxygen masks invented by grey-haired Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and two other doctors of the Mayo Clinic and already used to cure and prevent seasickness (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week, after demonstrating the oxygen sys tem in an overweather flight of four hours and 50 minutes from Minneapolis to Boston with nine passengers, Chief Pilot Mai Freeburg showed Northwest's new flying wrinkle to Boston and Manhattan scientists and newsmen...
...unit is approximately the weight of the hydrogen atom (or, precisely, 1/16 the weight of the oxygen atom...
...Mayo Clinic doctors flew to the conference in a specialty built substratospheric plane equipped with a new type of oxygen mask...
...water will be taken in the combined form of hydrogen peroxide, one molecule of which can be very readily split up into one molecule of water and half a molecule of oxygen. . . . Water will of course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...