Word: airtight
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...sure that the danger was real, Ambassador Braden acted vigorously. Making a nice diplomatic distinction between "intervention" and "intercession," he sent word to both Batista and Benitez that such undemocratic shenanigans were not in order. If Dr. Grau were kept from his lawful office, the U.S. would throw an airtight blockade around Cuba...
...tests, experimenters first punctured the airtight fuselage of the B-29 with shells of various sizes. They found that bullet holes did not let out enough air to affect the work of the powerful cabin superchargers (of which the B-29 has two). Even a larger shell hit could be patched before all the cabin pressure was lost. But there was still the danger of a large gaping rent such as a direct ack-ack hit might cause: how would men be affected by the sudden change of pressure...
Most oldtime hearing gadgets were not only feeble but massive. Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with...
...Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose the all-important Negro vote...
...perhaps the calmest burst of amazing prophecy on record, General Electric's famed Physicist-Chemist Irving Langmuir recently predicted that man would some day speed up to 5,000 miles an hour in a vacuum tube. He thought it would be perfectly possible to build an airtight vehicle, magnetically suspended in the tube and electronically controlled, in which travelers might zip from New York to San Francisco in an hour...