Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pink-cheeked extrovert who speaks a dozen languages, is called "Rockefeller of Sweden" because he gave $7,500,000 for a research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
...barber's vacuum tube that fits around customers' necks and shoulders, sucks up clipped hair...
Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
...Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with 14 major-league teams (all but the Boston Bees and Red Sox) and most of the minors, playing their hearts out for its Wheaties...
...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, in his final experiments, reflected light back & forth ten times in a mile-long vacuum tube from the faces of a rapidly spinning, 3 2-sided mirror. Velocity measurements completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error...