Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavy Seas at Zero. All the heavy deck cargo and 50,000 cases from below deck were salvaged. Even when stiff winds blew the temperature down to zero, the men swarmed over the ice-covered wreck, which threatened to break...
...present much of the work is being done in a specially constructed room replete with treadmill, where temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero can be effected and the air thinned to simulate conditions of high altitude flying. There is even a special air lock leading into the chamber so that the faint can be removed without ruining the experiment...
...temperature went down to 9° above zero. When the blizzards stopped, the wind blew and the snow drifted. Water froze in canteens ; motorized troops on the move built fires on the steel bottoms of their trucks. In the dark mornings the doughboys climbed out of their foxholes, sleepless, stiff-legged and red-eyed, to fight another day. The wounded died where they fell unless they were quickly picked up. The medics kept their morphine Syrettes under their armpits to prevent congealing...
...find out how long a flying suit will keep an aviator from freezing, human models often have to sit hour after hour in a cold chamber at 60° below zero. Candidates for this sort of work are naturally somewhat hard to find. And, because human models vary in resistance to cold, they are not very satisfactory anyway...
...cold chamber wearing test garments. Researchers, in a warm adjoining room, read its reactions by means of instruments. With the Copper Man as a guinea pig, they have developed lightweight, electrically warmed suits in which a human being can be comfortable at temperatures ranging from 60° below zero to 60° above...