Word: schaefer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artificial respiration is to force air into and out of the lungs of someone who has stopped breathing. The Schaefer prone pressure method, which first-aiders know best, does the trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation...
Your article on Meteorologists Langmuir and Schaefer neglected to mention that their work may result in another benefit ... to this part of the country...
Several years ago, [the late] H. T. Gisborne ... of the Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station contacted Dr. Schaefer about the possibilities of inducing rain over forest fires. When Dr. Schaefer learned of our high percentage of lightning-caused forest fires, he began looking into the rather fantastic idea of stopping lightning at its source...
...Gisborne and Dr. Schaefer selected a notorious cloud-breeding area in North Idaho . . . [and] had a plane ready to make the great experiment. But . . . the weather stubbornly refused to cooperate...
...Weather Bureau has shown recent signs of softening its opposition. Its chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, gives Langmuir and Schaefer full credit for showing how a cloud can be precipitated. Reichelderfer agrees that certain special clouds, such as the cold clouds which form over mountains, can be seeded profitably. But he thinks Langmuir's claims are too sweeping. "My impression," he says, "is that Langmuir and his associates were successful in speeding up the rain formation process in a few cases, but I feel quite sure that in many cases the rain was due to natural causes...