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Tanned Man. First thing Franklin Roosevelt did last week when he got back to Washington from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...
...February 1933, stuporous Patricia Maguire developed pneumonia. An oxygen tent, adrenalin and antipneumococcus serum preserved her deathlike life...
...Washington office, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins picked up a telephone, heard a voice say: "This is Louis Howe speaking. I want to talk to you about the works relief resolution." From beneath an oxygen tent in his sick room at the White House, Presidential Secretary Howe talked for ten minutes. Said Administrator Hopkins: "You could have knocked me over with a feather...
...Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story of his decline until the Press reported no hope remained and formal obituaries were prepared...
When the ship dives, the oil supply to the engines is cut off and they are fed from the tanks with oxygen and hydrogen. The explosive recombination of oxygen and hydrogen into water releases energy. Because of the engine temperature this exhaust water is in the form of superheated steam. All the steam is condensed inside the submarine. Hence no gases leave the ship to betray it by telltale bubbles on the surface...