Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Supreme Court was pondering the test case of Champlin Refining Co. v. Oklahoma's Corporation Commission, President Charles Edward Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp. was playing host to a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. It was not a big party. The members all sat around comfortably in Room No. 2604. But it was important. The guests represented the leading oil producers of the world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus...
...explain was why so many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France nuisance value still remained and Maryland looked like a doubtful State...
...illustrate this he will conduct demonstrations in which speech, song, and instrumental music are carried on a beam of light and will cause the photo tube to "see" light from various sources. In this experiment, light instantly sets up within the tube feeble electrical currents, which, amplified by vacuum tubes, are converted into sound waves and heard through a loud speaker connected to apparatus...
...long time, and he has done important work in the field of talking moving pictures, as well as in the co-ordination of telephone systems with power transmission lines. He is experienced in the production of seemingly astounding effects with the photoelectric cell. In his use of vacuum tubes, he will give a working demonstration of one of the most significant of the new tools that have come with the "electrical age." The address will give a clear indication of the certain possibilities which reside within the newest types of vacuum tubes...
General Motors' drive, commencing this week, consists of exhibits in 55 cities of its 150 automobiles and its other products (including vacuum cleaners, fans, water and lighting systems for farms). A total floor space of one million square feet will be used, one million dollars spent. Theme of the exhibition is "Work for Many Hands," to be symbolized by mammoth hands flanking the entrances, to be explained by exhibits showing how General Motors draws its raw materials from every State. Said G. M. President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of his exhibits last week: "This program was conceived...