Word: gasket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME for Sept. 27 I read: ". . . performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. . . . 'Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour without a quiver...
...which began, for him, with "the sudden, awed, incredulous realization that they had hit it, yes, by George, they hit it all together and all on the key-what a moment! . . . Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour and without a quiver. There is that crescendo rising to a high whole note where the cello threw a tire the time before that with a swoop and a triumphant scream from 20 strings they are over...
...making unit. Last year Owens sold about $6,000,000 worth of cans, which meant perhaps 300,000,000. More annoying to American and Continental is Baltimore's Crown Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed, Crown probably will account for no more than 2% of the total U. S. can output. Crown is also developing an aluminum plated...
...Food Industries this week Howard T. Greene, Wisconsin dairy manager, described a new method of packing cow's milk so that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...
...lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped a tank containing oil for the engines. The tank exploded and fire filled the engine room...