Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...aeromedical laboratory at Oklahoma City, CAA man John J. Swearingen built a pressure chamber like an airliner's cabin, with seats and a window of thin plastic. He made dummies with the weight, center of gravity and articulated joints of an average human being. He seated a dummy next to the window and pumped air into the chamber to simulate conditions in a pressurized airplane flying at 30,000 ft.* Then he focused his movie cameras and broke the window...
...Like Toothpaste. As the air rushed out of the cabin, the doomed dummy rose from its seat, shot toward the window and was forced through it like toothpaste extruded from a tube. When the pressure simulated an altitude of 40,000 ft., the dummy shot clear across the room, its legs and its arms detached...
Tuckerman's Ravine, a quarter of a mile from the cabin, provides most of the practice in ice climbing. Members climb up and above the side of the Ravine and over to Lion's Head on the other side...
Several members of the Mountaineering Club will ski and practice ice climbing during the vacation, operating from their base cabin on the flank of Mt. Washington. The H.M.C. cabin is reached by driving to Pinkham Notch, halfway between North Conway and Gorham, N. H. and then climbing with skins two and a quarter miles up Hoot Spur...
Boot Spur cabin was built in 1938 by students with the help of an old trapper. Members claim the cabin's bedding facilities will house 24, but add that more can sleep on the somewhat damp ground floor. Since the U. S. Forestry Service requires the door to be always unlocked, many college groups use Boot Spur cabin. The H.M.C., however, asks each visitor to contribute 25 cents to the "kitty...