Word: oxygenation
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...Construction of three experimental submarines at a cost of $50 million. One would be a target and research sub, designed to test the high-speed hull needed for atomic power. The other two would be a 250-ton baby submarine and a 2,200-tonner carrying its own oxygen supply for a "closed cycle" power plant, eliminating the need for surface breathing...
...often that Physics is no field for a person who is "interested in science." A fairly large number of men drop out of the department every year--men who got an "A" in high school algebra and concluded that they had been chosen to be the developer of the Oxygen-Bomb...
...94th Squadron was caught in the pressures of the final, convulsive effort of the war. Pilots were being pushed to the ends of their resources. They flew at heights above 20,000 feet without oxygen; they had no leaves, virtually no rest, no recreation. They went on their deadly missions from muddy pastures in cranky and underpowered planes which ran out of gas in less than two hours. They also got killed or wounded fast-only three original members were left when the new C.O. took over...
...says: "I began to fight. They had me under an oxygen tent. I tore it apart and picked up a pitcher. I heaved it at the radio and scored a direct hit. The radio flew apart and Winchell's voice stopped. Then I got well." Sixteen months later, at the request of his old friend General "Hap" Arnold, he went off on an inspection tour of World War II air bases in the Pacific, and found himself face to face with death once more...
...something," he explained. He was, said investigators, a "hero arsonist," one who likes to get credit for sounding alarms and helping out at fires. After setting the fire, Verna energetically aided in the rescue, pausing twice to let firemen clear out his smoke-filled lungs with oxygen...