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Pool Cleaner. To clean the bottom of a swimming pool without draining it, Poolmaster, Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., has developed a 4½-lb. vacuum cleaner on a 15-ft. handle. The machine uses water pressure from a garden hose to suck the pool dirt into a large detachable orlon bag. Price...
...Supreme Court colleagues (one was called "Bushy" after bearded Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes). Aside from Forestry, for example, Ickes made a grab for power over TVA, and when TVA Administrator David Lilienthal protested, Ickes wrote: "He is the type that wants his own little stick of candy to suck in the corner without anyone's being allowed to go anywhere near him." When a Roosevelt order deprived Ickes of some of his precious agencies, Ickes moaned: "I really believe that I am better physically when I am overworked. Ever since the President took PWA and other agencies away...
...worked for Eastman Kodak until he decided that he could do better on his own, Morse started out with the basic idea that high-vacuum (i.e., removing all the air) techniques could be useful to U.S. business. He and his staff developed machines efficient enough to suck all but a cupful of air out of an area as big as Chicago's Union Station. Then he worked out ways to use vacuum processes to dehydrate foods without killing vitamins or taste, refine metals better by keeping out impurities formed by the metals' contact with air, powder drugs faster...
Last week a 'Cliffe administration ruling imposed tight "Harvard-like restrictions on all 'Cliffedwellers in examinations. But the Annex Student Council has reacted to the order and issued an ultimatum to Dean of Residence Emily Lacey. It demands that 'Cliffedwellers continue to be allowed to "chew gum and suck lollipops" in examinations...
Morning--don't mention that foul word to me. Morning. They can exploit us in the afternoon, they can suck our blood in the evening But when they charge us six bucks for skipping breakfast, that's when we wind up our yoyos and go on the warpath. Many times I've woke up with eyes on fire, a mouthful of hair, and the bedsheets giving me soft, lingering caresses every time I try to move a muscle. Even the clock seems sleepy after I throw it on the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. On the desk, which...