Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the reasons, writes Dutch-born Psychiatrist Joost A. M. Meerloo in Postgraduate Medicine, are physical and general. In a crowded, unventilated room there is less oxygen to burn the alcohol in the blood, so the effects of two or three drinks pile up and may make even a seasoned drinker drunk. There is also lower oxygen tension at high altitudes, so drinking is risky in the mountains or in unpressurized airplanes (Dr. Meerloo is not sure about pressurized cabins). In the humid tropics the easy burning of alcohol may cause "an uneasy feeling of congestion" and give...
...time when the U.S. must have the power of instant retaliation, the weakness of the U.S.'s growing family of liquid oxygen ("lox") -and-kerosene-fueled missiles is that they cannot retaliate instantly. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test-ICBM Atlas: a minimum 15 minutes after an hour-long countdown. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test IRBM Thor, even using a promising but not fully tested method of "force-feeding": eight minutes. The U.S.'s lox missiles could conceivably be knocked out by the enemy before they could be fueled...
...promising answer to the problem is the Navy's 1,500-mile test-missile Polaris. Reason: it is fueled with a solid propellant. The Navy turned to solid fuels because it wants a missile that can be fired from submarines or surface vessels, and liquid-oxygen fueling is too complex for shipboard handling. Since solid-fuel missiles can be fired in the minutes needed to arm their warhead and make the final check on their guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting...
...Aggies' great halfback. John Crow, deep into the wet turf of Florida's 'Gator Bowl. Crow, in turn, stopped one Tennessee touchdown by separating Volunteer Tailback Bobby Gordon from both ball and senses with a vicious tackle, saved another by hitting Gordon so hard that oxygen was needed to revive him. But Crow could not keep Tennessee's Sammy Burklow from kicking his only field goal of the season and winning the game...
...based endless prognostications on Ike's posture and color, analyzed his inflections with elocutionary zeal. With every minor schedule change came a new flock of rumors; the evening that Ike canceled his appearance at the initial NATO banquet, Paris-Presse reported breathlessly that he had brought along his oxygen tent. To scuttle the scuttlebutt, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty opened his thrice-daily press conference to the whole NATO press corps instead of the comparative dozens of correspondents who normally attend his briefings, and solemnly tried to give some sort of answer to almost...