Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from an annual rate of 2,500,000 to 7,000,000 tons; coal, from 275,000 tons to more than 300,000 tons a day. Said Clay: "Everywhere labor and management have new hope, and soon Germany's recovery will be felt in filling the trade vacuum which has existed in Western Europe...
...fact, all the activities the new Union Committee drums up to fill the current vacuum will hop up future House programs. Recent House recruits haven't exactly been social drones, but they have gawked at the opulence of House facilities. There just hasn't been anything like that in the Yard. Obviously the Union can't suddenly be transformed into a full-blown freshman House, for although the men in the Yard deserve everything the Committee can get for them, the budget doesn't allow for a complete refurnishing job on the Union. But there is plenty of space...
...Acting," confided Robert Morley, Co-Author-Star of Edward, My Son, Broadway's latest British import of delectable British corn, "is as easy as selling beer or vacuum cleaners." Being your own playwright, added Actor Morley, really makes the whole thing "quite simple. You write a large part for yourself, as I did . . . and wear the audience down. By the end of the evening they're reconciled...
Last year it finally turned the corner. Says Vacuum's President John M. Fox: "Why, this orange juice thing is the wonder of the grocery world. Ask anybody." Anybody in the frozen food industry agreed-and Birds Eye, Snow Crop and others began to put out their own concentrate. Nevertheless, Vacuum's sales increased so much that President Fox announced last week that the net profit for its last fiscal year...
Demand is so great, said Fox, that Vacuum has had to allocate shipments and is thinking of setting up a California plant. The shortage temporarily takes some of the bloom off the Crosby deal. But Vacuum hopes to step up output enough to fill the new orders Crosby will bring in. And in the scramble for the new market, Vacuum figures that Crosby is just the Pied Piper needed to lure customers away from the old brand names...