Word: liquidator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...item in the treatment was heavy feeding. Patients had to take a minimum of 100 grams of liquid or solid protein a day, were threatened with tube feeding if they balked...
Atom Engines. At war's end rockets powered with chemical fuels (alcohol and liquid oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...physiologists and bacteriologists assembled in secret laboratories under the Chemical Warfare Service. With them worked 3,800 Army & Navy men. In gleaming glassware grew the world's most vicious germs. A flask of cloudy liquid or a blob of nutrient jelly might contain the makings of a pandemic...
...year; a half million will probably buy one. But they plan to pay only $5,020, a price few houses are selling at. For other consumer durable goods, 9.9 million consumers expect to spend $320 each ($3 billion in all). But they expect to spend only about 25% from liquid assets; of the rest, 40% will come from current income; 35% from borrowing...