Word: oxygenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Northwest Airlines got practical about the problem, announced that it was installing plane oxygen systems which will : 1) cure airsickness, 2) prevent heart palpi tation and hard breathing at high altitudes, 3) make flying comfortable at cruising levels up to 30,000 feet, 4) prevent the painful sensation of having one's ears stopped up in descents from flights...
...unit is approximately the weight of the hydrogen atom (or, precisely, 1/16 the weight of the oxygen atom...
...Mayo Clinic doctors flew to the conference in a specialty built substratospheric plane equipped with a new type of oxygen mask...
...will not be possible ... to carry water for washing purposes or razors. Smoking, also, will be most strictly prohibited, for every cubic inch of oxygen will be needed for human consumption. It can be seen that those who undertake the journey will in addition to a variety of hazards be subject to severe privations. Neither will it be necessary to take along any form of arms for in the unlikely event of there being inimical life on our satellite it is not probable that it would be of a type that would be seriously affected by [firearms...
...water will be taken in the combined form of hydrogen peroxide, one molecule of which can be very readily split up into one molecule of water and half a molecule of oxygen. . . . Water will of course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...