Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed house; to stumble over a chair lying on the floor where it was overturned in the haste of departure; to discover the morning paper lying as usual on the sideboard where it was left four months earlier; to find a forgotten quarter-pound of butter in the icebox- such will be the experience of the 74th Congress as it meets this week. This will be no new Congress but merely a second assembly of an old one picking up where it left off Aug. 26. The bills then in committee pigeonholes will be found in the same pigeonholes...
...salesman. At 35 he was sales manager for National Cash Register, under John H. Patterson, father of high-pressure selling. Next he sold Delco home-lighting units to U. S. farmers. After General Motors acquired the Delco Company, Frigidaire was combined with Delco and Mr. Grant added the iceless icebox to his sales triumphs. In 1924 he became Chevrolet sales manager, did for Chevrolet sales what Mr. Knudsen did for Chevrolet production. Since 1934 he has been vice president in charge of sales for the entire General Motors line...
...took an ill-tempered, 20-lb. rhesus monkey named Jekal, asphyxiated it with ether, injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from coagulating. When the animal's breathing and circulation had stopped, a chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr. Willard popped Jekal into an icebox where the temperature was kept at - 30° C. ( - 22° F.). Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating coils and a fan. When...
...vacantly. In a day or two the creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...experimenter's declared purpose was to learn whether tuberculosis, cancer and syphilis might not be cured by prolonged freezing. Before entering the icebox Jekal was tuberculous. After his resuscitation Dr. Willard examined the blood for tubercle bacilli, found none. It was his theory that cold inactivated the germs, prevented them from propagating...