Word: liquidating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christie's London auction rooms J. Pierpont Morgan's vast collection of miniatures was sold, in line with his program of getting his estate into the most liquid position possible before his death. Assembled abroad by his father, the 795 tiny, jeweled pictures were bought mainly by European dealers and collectors for $349,285, about two-thirds of what the elder Morgan is supposed to have paid for the collection...
...anonymously in Science a skimpy description of a pump which Dr. Carrel desired and he designed. It consisted of a spirally coiled glass tube, resembling a hot water heater. The top opening of the Lindbergh tube was connected to the bottom opening by a straight glass tube, and the liquid sealed into the closed tubular circuit. By standing the coil on end and wobbling it, centrifugal force pushed the fluid up to the top of the spiral. There the fluid sloshed over into the straight down tube, and back into the bottom of the coil...
Sauciest exponent of rugged individualism is John M. Nichols, president of small First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. which boasts 100% liquidity (cash & Government bonds). When breezy Banker Nichols heard last year that National Bank of Commerce of Houston, Tex. was 80% liquid, he wrote to RFChairman Jesse Jones who controls the Houston bank: "Atta boy. Keep up the good work. At the rate you are going it won't be long before we are both 100%. While you are crooning the rest of the bankers into supporting floundering industry, you and I can pull for shore. The idea...
...liquid diet was administered through a nasal catheter for two months. It consisted of four coddled eggs, one pint of milk, one pint of cream, the juice of six oranges, cooked cereal, thin custard, vegetable soup and brewers' yeast. After the fever subsided, one-half ounce of cod liver oil was added. She gained weight so rapidly that the caloric value had to be reduced. When swallowing returned, the catheter was placed in her mouth. She still drinks in this manner, lying on her back with her head turned to the side...
...technique of approach is a complicated cycle of cooling, compression, magnetization, demagnetization. Liquid air cools compressed hydrogen until it liquefies, the liquid hydrogen cools com- pressed helium until it too liquefies. The last stage depends on the fact that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. The substance is powerfully magnetized and the heat generated drawn off; then a step farther down the scale of cold is obtained by demagnetization, and the cycle is repeated. The temperature is read by a system, of delicate balances, using the principle (discovered in the Curie laboratories of Paris) that the magnetic force...