Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days last week Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 Gangster of the U. S., disappeared following his secret release from Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison (TIME, March 24). Behind he left an enormous news vacuum into which rushed loose-tongued Rumor. Where was Al Capone...
Researcher E. L. Manning of General Electric told listeners at the Engineers Club. Philadelphia, last week: "We have learned to build vacuum tubes which broadcast such a short-length wave (1 in.) that people in the neighborhood will have their blood temperatures raised...
...which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb. connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
...Vacuum. Reputedly the oldest of oil companies in existence, Vacuum was founded in 1866, seven years after the first commercial production of petroleum, by Matthew Ewing, inventor, and Hiram B. Everest, grocer, on the basis of a vacuum distillation process which Mr. Ewing maintained could turn petroleum 100% into kerosene. This was a valuable claim because the lighter distillations, such as are used for gasoline, were in those days dumped into rivers as waste-products. When the process failed, Mr. Ewing dropped out, but Mr. Everest developed Vacuum Harness Oil, sold it in second-hand oyster cans...
...Vacuum was absorbed by Standard Oil and developed rapidly when lubricating oil was needed for the stationary engine, the automobile, and finally the electric generator, motor and transformer and the steam turbine...