Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere Britons again carried their gas masks and the whole Air Raid Precautions system was pepped up afresh. "If you are caught in the open and cannot reach shelter," advised the Home Office, "lie down and cover your head with your arms." Newspapers urged the people to keep cool if & when death dropped out of the skies; told them that the one you hear doesn't get you, that Britain has plenty of fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns to drive off aerial Blitzkriegers...
...method of coating the lamps with a porous powder so that longer rays of the visible range are efficiently radiated. Costly to install, fluorescents waste only 75% of their energy in heat (incandescents waste 90%), are therefore more economical than incandescents in many uses. Millions who saw their cool, ghostly rays at the World's Fairs last summer are already spending $1,000,000 a week to install fluorescents in factories, stores, some homes...
...said nothing. Like many another San Franciscan, its suave, cool President James Byers Black contemplated last week four ways in which San Francisco (short of shutting down Hetch Hetchy's turbines) may try to extricate itself from the dilemma. The ways...
...ordinary metal casting, molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then removed. After long experiment, several metallurgical manufacturers have devised a way to cast high-grade metal rods continuously-that is, in an endless strip, as newsprint is made. Molten metal is fed from a reservoir to a water-cooled tube. As the metal flows down and out of the tube, a water spray cools it so that it can be continuously withdrawn as a solid rod. The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc. (Boston consultants) states that continuously cast rods are free of air cavities...
...Kansas City, lunch and politicians, then waving to crowds at Kansas stops all the way to the cool green shade of Emporia (William Allen White was in New York City), and a banquet on baked ham in a stuffy room with scores of postmasters and their ladies. For the tenth time he heard singers roar God Bless America. As he got on the train, said Big Jim: "Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River...