Word: oxygenate
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...shrewd, faithful political counsel to Franklin Roosevelt put Louis McHenry Howe into the White House in March 1933 as No. 1 Presidential Secretary. Two years later a combination of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma put the President's best-loved, most-trusted adviser, supposedly dying, under an oxygen tent in his White House bedroom...
...sight; and by a horde of onlookers who shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward sunset, when his condition became hopeless, it was arranged that the lights would blink in the sickroom to signify the end to friends and kin on the porch below. At 4 a. m. two mornings after he was shot, Huey Long, breathing heavily, was staring wild-eyed...
...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...
...Theodore W. Legatski, had cheerful words to say about two by-product gases, propane and butane, which are easily liquefied for tank car shipment and are in fast-growing use as a low-cost fuel for stationary engines, switching locomotives, tractors, trucks and buses. These two, mixed with oxygen, are cheaper than acetylene as a fuel for welding torches. Since they vaporize easily, they are good refrigerants. Some consumers use the same gallon of propane first as a chemical solvent, next as a refrigerant, finally burn it as a gas fuel...
...Dropped in 24-hour time are "a. m." and "p. m.," 1 p. m. becoming 13 o'clock; 10:30 p. m., 22:30. ¶Received from the Commission on Planets, Comets & Satellites a unanimous opinion that the atmosphere of Mars is less than 1% as rich in oxygen as Earth's air-insufficient to sustain "life as we know it." ¶Contemplated progress made on the naming of 2,000 minor planets circulating mostly between Mars and Jupiter and of which the largest is Ceres (diameter 480 mi.). ¶Heard the Commission on Meteorites strongly urge...