Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year WBBM sold its football broadcasts to the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., and this year to the Kellogg Co. Never at any time has WBBM, Socony, or Kellogg paid Northwestern University for the rights to broadcast any sport...
...President Roosevelt, but Secretary Ickes is not likely to get off so easily, for he committed his ideas to writing in a letter to none other than the man the prosecution last week accused of being the "master mind" of the combine- Vice President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum...
...signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical romance, And So-Victoria, which since publication ten weeks ago has been filling reader "voids" at the rate of 14,000 per week.* Offered...
...shiny now contraption that looks like a cross between an electric lawnmower and the Wright Brothers' first airplane moves smoothly along over the elm covered lawn of the Yard scooping leaves as it goes. Creation of a vacuum is the principle by which the machine operates. A large roller is turned, creating a fine vacuum and whoosh!--all the leaves are in the basket...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...