Word: oxygen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply route to China may soon be using it, avoiding the 20,000-ft.-high "oxygen run" across the Hump and stepping up the deliveries to Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and the Chinese armies. To this airfield, too, reinforcements for Stilwell can be fer ried even during the monsoon...
...refugee without an adequate laboratory, Ehrenhaft has again challenged a basic concept. When an electric current passes through acidified water between iron poles, the current decomposes the water and oxygen is formed at the positive pole. It is Ehrenhaft's claim that when the two poles of a horseshoe magnet are substituted for the current, oxygen is present in the gas that rises from the north magnetic pole. Therefore, he reasoned, the water is decomposed and there must be a flow of magnetic current...
...gases from Ehrenhaft's tests were analyzed by Brooklyn's authoritative Foster D. Snell, Inc. Results: about i% of oxygen, slightly more at the north magnetic pole, slightly less at the south, none at all if the iron was not magnetized. This analysis seemed to bear out Ehrenhaft's conclusions...
They did not disappear because of lack of oxygen in the water, weather (the smelts died in both warm and cold water) or air men's practice bombings in the Great Lakes (bombed fish have pulverized livers, of which there was no sign in the dead smelts). Dr. Van Oosten thinks that most likely the fish were killed by bacteria or viruses, but probably no one will ever know...
Patriotic donors at home could rest assured that blood plasma, which is blood with the red corpuscles removed, is often a lifesaver. But a really bad hemorrhage produces a dangerous reduction in red corpuscles, which carry oxygen to the tis sues. Though a man can get along on less than half the ideal number of red corpuscles, he may die from lack of oxygen in his tissues if the shortage gets acute...