Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calculation. At the University of Chicago, Sherman Dryer, director of the Mutual Broadcasting System's recent 30-minute simplification of Einstein's relativity theory, calculated that during their six-weeks condensation period his staff had read 25 books, written 121 pages of notes, drunk 85 cups of black coffee, taken 30 aspirins, and used up 22 erasers...
...University of Chicago's The Human Adventure radio program is not a new idea. It was used successfully for 42 weeks on CBS in 1940. The originator was William Benton, advertising man emeritus (Benton & Bowies), now a University of Chicago vice president. Sherman Dryer, head of the University's radio department, produces it with the assistance of the faculty and Chicago radio actors. As a dramatization of the factual research going on in colleges and universities, Chicago's show has already scored heavily with students of many degrees of learning...
...household art of mechanical dehydration, engineers and food chemists have worked out a home food dryer that can be used in any kitchen. Like the first horseless carriage, the home dehydrator is crude and sometimes unreliable, but it can save a lot of time and labor. The Department of Agriculture thinks so well of its possibilities that WPB has allotted manufacturers enough material to make 100,000 home dehydrators this year...
...sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel; then the rice is husked and polished in the usual...
Trouble was, nobody much wanted him to render his service. Since Tobe's noise suppressers go on everything but the radio, he had to try to sell vacuum-cleaner and hair-dryer and clock and fan and telephone manufacturers on adding it to their products. In the depression most of them had enough trouble as it was, without monkeying with a radio silencer no one had ever heard...