Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Andover meet, first outdoor test for 1942, hardly more than a month away, Coaches Mikkola and Neufeld are working overtime in the Cages and under the Stadium to whip into shape a Yardling track squad with few stars, a near vacuum in several events, and bad probation trouble...
Offered for licensing by Houdry Process Corp., the new process may revolutionize refining. At present only Sun and Socony-Vacuum are using it, and they mix the result with ordinary gas to improve the octane rating. If Houdry refining becomes general, it may: 1) reduce the need for the tetraethyl lead which now makes most gasoline satisfactory in modern high-compression engines; 2) conserve U. S. oil reserves by yielding more gasoline per barrel of crude; 3) help stabilize prices by stabilizing stocks, now badly unbalanced because gasoline and fuel oil must be produced simultaneously though one is most used...
Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...
Engaged. Omero Cesere Catan, 24, Manhattan vacuum cleaner salesman, specialist in being first in line whenever a new bridge or tunnel is opened; to Jean Tobolka, 27, stenographer; in Manhattan; after getting the first Manhattan marriage license...