Word: oxygenate
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...Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid had died quietly ten minutes before. Her body was taken to Paris, to the home of Ogden Mills, which...
Next day Alice Roosevelt Longworth, his wife, was summoned by telegraph from Washington. A specialist arrived from Augusta. Five nurses went on duty. The Speaker was put into an oxygen tent. The Press rushed representatives to Aiken as his condition changed from "serious" to "dangerous," from "critical" to "hopeless...
...walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
...Ordinary air contains 21% oxygen. At a height of three miles oxygen is so scant that to live man needs to breathe from tanks of the gas. At four miles oxygen is but 10% of the atmosphere, and airplane motors need superchargers...
Close Call, About five miles above New York City the engine of Elinor Smith's Bellanca began to sputter. She reached under the dashboard to turn a fuel valve. Instead, she must have loosened a connection of her oxygen breather. . . . Next thing that Elinor Smith saw was the Hempstead, L. I. reservoir only 2,000 ft. away, rushing up to meet her. She pulled her ship into a gliding angle, skimmed into a field, jammed on the brakes to avoid striking a tree. The plane nosed over. Rescuers rushed up to find the girl unhurt, walking about, crying hysterically...