Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor of the bill. Two other notable industrialists who favor the general idea include Lamont duPont, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours, which instituted a six-hour day in October, 1931, and Herbert Lee Pratt, chairman of Socony-Vacuum, which instituted a five-day week last fall. Many a great corporation is already providing its workers with no more than 30 hours work a week, many an executive is committed to the economic theory that there must be more workers on the na- tional payroll and a bigger payroll...
...stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance there must be heat absorbed from radiations of the Sun or other stars...
Died. Dan P. Hoover, 47, vice president of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners), son of the founder; by jumping from a fifth floor window at Cleveland Clinic while under observation for a stomach disorder...
...discovery of $500,000 defalcations from Standard-Vacuum Transportation Co. (Socony-Vacuum tanker line) by Assistant Paymaster William C. Head. 50 (TIME, Dec. 12); a sentence of three to six years imprisonment; in Manhattan...
...violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking in the atmosphere's moisture; a vacuum box was taking its pressure; a bimetallic strip contracting at two different rates in the 4°-below-zero cold was taking its temperature. The three operations were being recorded by three minutely moving pencil arms on a cylinder revolving once every four hours. As he had done nearly every...