Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...device operated by liquid air puts ring-inserts in cylinder blocks, downs labor cost...
...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
...IOOOI-the first toy train built absolutely to scale (1/45th). Orders began streaming in by the thousands. Last week in Newark, U. S. District Judge Guy L. Fake, congratulating the receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within eight months. Christmas sales had been the biggest in history, sales for the full year biggest since the peak year 1930. Said Judge Fake: "This was the most successful receivership in the history of this court...
Ford Motor Co. is a Delaware corporation. Its main plant-the most magnificent aggregation of industrial equipment in the modern world-is at River Rouge, Mich. At the start of last year it had assets of $639,000,000, over one-half of which was in cash or liquid paper. During the past 30 years it has sold more than 22,000,000 automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with...
...located. Dr. Urey knew that if its atoms had indeed a mass of two units, it would show spectrum lines of a predictable kind and position. The question was how to get the substance in sufficient concentration to show spectrum lines at all. It occurred to him that if liquid hydrogen were allowed to evaporate, the lighter atoms would pass off first, leaving the heavy ones in greater abundance. Hydrogen liquefies at -452° F. Dr. Urey had no apparatus for producing that sort of temperature. He asked his friend Ferdinand Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards...