Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff, lustrous hostess coat from natural gas, coal oil, salt and air...
...air-conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every public place in America." For breakfast he has coffee, toast, fruit juice and cereal; for dinner, swordfish...
...Nitroparaffms. Last spring Chemist Henry Bohn Hass of Purdue announced production of two new explosives, "nibglycerol trinitrate" and "nibglycol dinitrate," by combining steam, nitrogen from air, methane and ethane from natural gas (TIME, April 17). Now dozens of other nitroparaffins similarly formed are available for making plastics, dyes, textiles, cosmetics, floor waxes, rubber...
Through the night the long windows of Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engine plant glow with an eerie, blue-green light. Through the streets of East Hartford, Conn., freight cars lumber along old trolley tracks from the plant to the New Haven Railroad. The air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings. And every six seconds the white finger of the airport beacon flicks over the fleshening skeleton of a huge new factory extension growing from the main plant...
...most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the "Kollsman number." What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to adjust his altimeter, which actually is nothing but a barometer graduated in feet of altitude...