Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swimming pool half inside the living room, lights that go on and off at the command of Hayes's voice, and such homey essentials as faucets that dispense Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. Says he: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. The rug catches it. Since the rug is so heavy...
...monitors at a radio shop in Anchorage, 140 miles away, heard Crews's call for help: all four in the upper party were injured -broken limbs, head injuries, frostbite-and now Mrs. Bading herself, a slight (95 lbs., 4 ft. 11 in.) woman, was sick from lack of oxygen. Before Crews finished radioing his report, one of the greatest rescue operations of Alaskan history was under way. For four grueling days, mountain climbers struggled toward the peak, and daredevil airmen dropped supplies and ferried rescuers, winged among deadly granite walls...
...Glacier. While Air Force planes dropped stoves, oxygen, tents, rope and food, military helicopters tried to land on the upper slopes, turned back again and again because of gusty winds. From Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member...
...helicopter with a maximum altitude of 15,000 ft. Returning to the 10,200-ft. camp, he stripped his plane of a door, a 28-lb. battery, a 12-lb. radio and some cushions, so that his lightened plane could accommodate a passenger. He popped an oxygen tube into his mouth and took off. Ten minutes later he landed on the upper slope at 17,200 ft., scooped up a seriously injured John Day, 51, ferried him down to the 10,200-ft. station, where Bush Pilot Sheldon was waiting to take Day to the hospital...
...FORD STEEL process will cut its open-hearth-furnace production time in half, says company. Ford puts oxygen, fuel and burned lime into furnaces v. usual limestone. Steel industry is skeptical of the process' high costs, but Ford plans to put it into...