Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuttled from road to road willy-nilly, every freight car in the U. S. must be equipped. All U. S. railroad brakes are Westinghouse but Westinghouse does not make all brakes. New York Air Brake, founded in Watertown, N. Y. about 50 years ago to turn out a vacuum brake, got involved in patent squabbles with George Westinghouse, and the upshot was an agreement whereby New York made Westinghouse brakes under license. Today the business is split approximately 25% to New York, 75% to Westinghouse. Westinghouse's new type AB was put on the market three years ago. Only...
...with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to perform the maneuver which yachtsmen call "back-winding." Air currents, forced backwards by Rainbow's sails, destroyed the vacuum on the front side of Endeavour's. Endeavour lost more ground by tacking again, trailed Rainbow across the line...
...TIME, Sept. 3, you show a striking ad of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., headed ''Rubber Doughnuts...
Besides contributing to newspapers and magazines, he has versified for greeting cards, mottoes, calendars, bridge score pads, trade papers in which he has sung of machine tools, electric toasters, coal breakers, Mergenthalers, vacuum cleaners. He has bombarded the quality magazines. Harper's stood out against him five years, Century ten, Scribner's twelve, Atlantic, 28. All succumbed except Vanity Fair which he is still attacking. It is nothing for Minstrel Braley to turn out six verses a week for a newspaper syndicate, four for trade publications, while keeping 25 to 60 in the mail as a matter of routine...
Motors. A more conclusive example of profitless prosperity was furnished by General Motors' quarterly report, published last week. GM sold 130,000 more autos than in 1933's second quarter and a correspondingly larger number of refrigerators, Diesel engines, spark plugs, vacuum cleaners. Translated into dollars, its three-month sales jumped to $303,000,000?an increase of no less than $100,000,000. Yet wages and the cost of materials jumped even faster. So GM did its additional $100,000,000 of business without a nickel's profit. Indeed its three-month profit of $40,000,000 was actually...