Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...south but set in a basin where cold air settles and few winds blow. Zenzinov one day in January, 1913 noted a temperature of 95.4° below Zero. In Verkhoyansk, says he, if "you take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks fly as if from flint. . . . Even rum would freeze in my traveling flask. Only pure alcohol withstood the cold...
...steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
Washington last week caught up with Leyden, Berlin and Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless...
...joined their research departments. Air Reduction controls Pure Carbonic Co. of America in which Alcohol has a 20% interest. Alcohol sells carbon dioxide (CO2) to Air Reduction and Pure Carbonic, which sells carbonic gas to soft drink and dry ice manufacturers. In this field the companies are rivals of Liquid Carbonic Corp. and its ally, Dry Ice Holding Co. In the alcohol field. United States Industrial faces competition from many smaller, scattered concerns, one of the strongest of which is American Commercial Alcohol Corp., doing 16% of the business...
...large accounts were also tied up. The Salvation Army had on deposit $50,000 of the proceeds of the Army-Navy charity football game (see p. 34). J. C. Brownstone & Co., a clothing firm whose senior partner is a Bank of United States director, had the bulk of its liquid assets in the bank, asked for a receiver. Burns Bros. Coal dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than $100,000 in the bank. The City of New York sought in vain to release...