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...Refrigerators will contain a violet-ray compartment for tenderizing meats and an ice-cube ejector worked by turning a crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Homes of the Future | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...ejector for removing butter from butter forks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou's line, skidded along to the tip, locked fast with a corresponding gripper. With the electric potentials of both planes equalized to prevent static sparks, the tanker's crew joined a pipe line to the grapnel, fed it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile). There was a starting system operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motion For Sale | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Considerable difficulty was encountered in building the basement and foundation, for these parts of the building are below the level of the Charles, and required steady pumping for weeks while the cellars were waterproofed and equipped with ejector pits to dispose of the sewerage. The building is connected with the other three Freshman dormitories by an underground tunnel, which will not be used by the students, but which serves as a service entrance for the hall "goodies" whose headquarters are three blocks away, is the basement of Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Building Campaign Reaches Height as Straus, McKinlock, Fogg Museum and Shaler Lane Are Completed | 9/24/1926 | See Source »

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