Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narkotin in the following way: the juice was pressed out of the unripe orange, and carefully evaporated under vacuum at a very low temperature. The juice after this treatment was pure. A solution of carbonate of soda was added and the juice again treated with ether, which then was again steamed off. The result was a yellow oil containing some needle-shaped crystals. When these crystals had been treated with ultra violet rays they proved able to withstand storage, and when they were given to a porpoise suffering from scurvy in its acutest form, the porpoise was completely cured after...
...most recent years, it was almost four times the 1930 figure despite greatly reduced sales volume. Cheering to shareholders was Mr. Firestone's assertion that "in 1930 . . . 20% more tire mileage was consumed than was sold and approximately the same was true in 1931. We feel, therefore, that this vacuum must soon be filled and that we can look forward to a considerably greater volume of business in 1932." Fallen Fruit. Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. was formed in 1924 after old Atlantic Fruit Co. was foreclosed. The com-pany never made money, despite the fact that its directorate...
Alchemy's new keys to transmutation are the alpha particles of electricity which unstable atoms emit and which unsettle other atoms upon collision. Radium emits alpha particles naturally (also betas and .gammas, the latter helpful in cancer). Artificial streams of alpha particles have been produced from vacuum tubes carrying as high as 650,000 volts. But the production of such voltages is expensive. 'The significance of Dr. Van de Graaff's purchase at the 5f/ & 10^ store ribbon counter was that he had discovered how to produce a current of electricity with light-ning-like force...
...must do to keep himself and his wife (Katherine Alexander) alive in a third-rate hotel room on the Boulevard Montparnasse and to keep his son in an "advanced" school in England, where he is being "cured" of a mother-fixation. The U. S., he declares, is "a spiritual vacuum, a cultural desert." Claire Shelby wants to go back "where her roots are"; more important, she wants to have her child. To stay in the next room come two old friends, Waldo Lynde (Donald MacDonald) and his promiscuous wife Susie (Millicent Green). Waldo is satisfied with life...
...President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, for his exemplary stock farm at Angora, from Manhattan sailed six U. S. pedigreed cows, two bulls, four heifers, gifts from President Wilfred Washington Fry of N. W. Ayer & Co. Hoover of (advertising), Hoover President Vacuum Herbert Cleaner W. Co., Chainstoreman James Cash Penney...