Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elephants but once, while Mr. Charbneau was showing them to Samaeka Pasha, president of the Coptic Museum of Cairo, all of them fell on the soft carpet. Though Samaeka Pasha, his wife and Collector Charbneau searched diligently, even using Mr. Charbneau's 2-in. Hoover vacuum cleaner, the three missing elephants were never recovered...
...filing cabinets into an express car, his employes into a Pullman and the following Monday morning opened shop in Manhattan. Around 1920 Henry Ittleson became convinced that his business was leaning too heavily on the motor industry. He launched a program of diversification which took him into phonographs, vacuum cleaners, barber and beauty shop equipment, electric refrigerators, oil burners and finally into the textile factoring business. But he was not averse to increasing his automobile business by acquisition of Henry Ford's financing company, Universal Credit Corp., in 1933. Today CIT finances the sale of Graham-Paige, Hudson, Nash...
...priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker Pen Co. (The other, L. E. Waterman Co., has never published a financial statement...
...Herbert Spencer Gasser is a professor of physiology at Cornell University School of Medicine where his researches on electrical currents passing through nerves and their relation to the central nervous system have given him large professional fame. By means of vacuum tubes he has magnified those currents 3,000,000 times, found that some of them move more than three miles a minute. At 47, he is unmarried, a lover of music who plays no instrument...
...Brooklyn refinery went Son Herbert. After an eight-year apprenticeship, he was promoted to one of the Rockefeller central committees -old Standard Oil's committee on manufacturing. When the Oil Trust was busted in 1911, Herbert Pratt was made vice president of the New York fragment, now Socony Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. And as he mounted to the presidency and on to the board chairmanship of the second largest member of the Standard group, the name Pratt grew as potent in the oil industry's gasoline age as it had been in kerosene. Last week Mr. Pratt suddenly...