Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the advertisement-girl who was often a bridesmaid but never a bride, Vacuum Oil Co. has many times been rumored as about to ally with Standard Oil of New York, has just as many times failed to complete the alliance. Last week the merger was announced, with just one hitch. The hitch was that both companies are fragments of the old "Standard Oil Trust," and strong will be the belief that what the Supreme Court has rent asunder no man may dare put together. To argue against this, the companies will maintain, when the government brings a trial injunction...
Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...
White Eagle. With the long-rumored Standard Oil of N. Y. and Vacuum Oil Co. merger still patiently awaited, Standard stockholders last week were informed that their company will buy White Eagle Oil and Refining Co. One of the leading producers in the Mid-Continent Field, White Eagle markets its products throughout the Middle West and Rocky Mountain territory. In September White Eagle had assets of $36,000,000, of which $28,000,000 represented oil and gas leases, refining stations, pipe lines, tank cars...
...thors have produced 5,000,000 volts of static electricity for an instant's duration. Their passing flashes have been useful only to indicate the nature of natural lightning. General Electric's William David Coolidge two years ago succeeded in ramming 350,000 volts through three special vacuum tubes connected in tandem. He got the cumulative, cascading effect of 900,000 volts, which pounded a flood of electrons (particles of negative electricity) through a metal window in the end tube. These free but directed electrons butted the constituents of atoms around to degrees and for effects which physicists...