Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile standing stark against the sky, her nose a full 80 ft. above the ground. Dozens of helmeted workers swarmed about her base, and a man climbed up to tinker with valves and connecting lines. A moment later plumes of mist rose from the base as fueling with liquid oxygen began...
...industrial complex of a steel mill and a 300,000 kw. hydroelectric plant being hacked out of the desolate countryside near ore-rich Cerro Bolivar. Also built or building are railroads, schools and housing. But many projects are notably frivolous. Item: a $30-million cable-car sightseeing system, with oxygen-equipped cars, to the top of 15,380-ft. Mount Espejo...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...that will require revision of some long-held ideas. Forceps deliveries, he believes, account for less than 3% of cerebral palsy, although a total of 60% of all cases can be traced to some kind of damage at birth-notably brain hemorrhage and contusions during a difficult delivery, and oxygen starvation (which in its turn may have a multiplicity of causes). About 30% of cerebral palsy is caused, Dr. Perlstein believes, by the mother's illnesses during pregnancy (especially German measles, but also anemia and diabetes) and Rh incompatibility-though this last cause has fallen in frequency from...
...airplane is seriously damaged or if something has happened to its oxygen supply, the pilot must bail out. When he cuts loose, the quick-thinking suit switches to a bottle of oxygen in the parachute pack and keeps the man alive on the long fall toward earth...