Word: spray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matching the Post in bad humor "Cissy" Patterson then sent her chauffeur to Eugene Meyer's home with a gorgeously decorated box. Inside was her card inscribed: "So as not to disappoint you.' Beneath a spray of freesia, sweet peas anc forget-me-nots, Publisher Meyer found pound of raw meat...
Thief John Dillinger, on whose grave near Indianapolis last week appeared a spray of greens inscribed "Merry Christmas, Old Pal," was the No. 1 catch of a New Deal's crime drive which in one year landed every major public enemy save one in jail or grave, solved seven out of eleven kidnappings, convicted three kidnappers...
...atmospheric humidity went to Buffalo Forge Co. to see what could be done. In the company's employ was Willis Carrier, just out of Cornell. Young Carrier was interested, began to experiment, found that warm wet air could be cooled and dried by passing it through an atomized spray. By 1915 he had recruited a partner and enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark, N. J. In 1922 he invented a centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard, is absent-minded about meals and haircuts, likes to hunt...
...There is little doubt that under certain conditions, much of the ground fog could be dissipated by using electrified spray from fireboat nozzles. The electrification must need be high, something of a half million volts...
...this time the George Washington's photographer had excitedly unlimbered his camera. He caught the foam-flecked wave that heaved up and tore off the right pontoon of the low swooping plane. As she floundered in a mountain of spray, Swedish Mechanic Henry ("Happy") Johnson was drowned, but within 50 minutes a smart boat crew had saved everyone else as both plane and camera sank. The can of film that had now cost an additional $70,000 was hauled back aboard the George Washington and Fox faced a possible lawsuit from the owners of the plane...