Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...
...Among the defendants: Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. and its Vice President Charles E. Arnott, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. and its Vice President Robert W. McDowell...
...inhabitants of Richland Center, Wis. have two general stores, a cheesebox factory, two weekly newspapers, the county seat and an unconscionable amount of static. Last summer so many irate listeners complained to the city fathers of vacuum cleaner, heating pad and electric razor interference in their radios that the august body had a survey made. Offenders were asked to install condensers and other racket-eliminating gadgets. Few did. So last week the municipally-owned electric company sent electricians from door to door. Methodically they began installing condensers where necessary, charging them to the householder's monthly bill. Penalty...
...machine, ions, akin to the particles shot forth by radium and other radioactive elements, are revolved around in a vacuum tank between the poles of a huge magnet at the speed of millions of miles an hour...
...report concludes. On a more concrete plane, the Union finds that tutorial today is often carried on by inexperienced men working under haphazardly diverse conditions. And little attempt is made to coordinate the work of individual tutors, who tend to function, as one tutor put it, in a vacuum...