Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, Casey. According to the testimony of the fireman who was working on the boy, Casey appeared just at the moment when there was every chance the boy might live, and, without consulting a doctor, ordered the squad to stop wasting their oxygen on a case where the victim was obviously dead...
Whether Casey actually did ask the doctor if the boy were dead or not will be difficult for the investigators to ascertain, as the accounts of the witnesses vary widely. What may be assumed, however, is that Chief Casey's concern over the expense of the oxygen hardly exceeded his interest in saving the life; Casey's real reason for calling off the rescue appears to be the same one which has prompted him to interfere on several other occasions -- he is determined to discredit and to make as difficult as possible the work of the rescue squad...
...Bonnett doubled up with a severe pain in his stomach. What he should have done, as his companion observer did do, was to pop his head out of the cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours after the flight...
...attachment as possible. She flies grimly around the world; he meets her glumly in New York. Their depression, induced by gallantry, reaches its nadir when the aviatrix learns that she is going to have a baby. She hops into her plane, flies as high as she can, removes her oxygen mask...
...issued by a corporation launched & christened only three weeks ago; the Istituto Ricostruzione Industriale. On the one hand I. R. I. will avowedly "pump oxygen" (i. e. credit) into worthy industries, much as does Washington's R. F. C. On the other hand, Rome's I. R. I. will further the State's liquidation of non-self-supporting industries, "pruning" them out of Italian industrial life...