Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intellectual Vacuum" that was Europe at the war's end, has arisen gradually an ineatiable demand for knowledge and more knowledge to fill that vacuum. Students have helped rebuild universities with their bare hands. Many have been turned away from colleges for lack of space. Often there is only enough paper for one students to take notes for an entire class. Few books are available and, whenever a magazine is able to increase its publication, all issues are soon hungrily devoured...
Mike Romanoff, Hollywood restaurateur turned columnist, advised Eric Johnston, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman: "I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman myself, and I can tell you it's nice outdoor work. Go back, Mr. Johnston, before . . . it's too late...
...Bullock's director who is also an official of Socony-Vacuum's General Petroleum Corp. then got the team to plan General's new $8,000,000 office building. They designed the building in "modules" - or 7-ft. sections - for easy shifting of partitions and rooms in rearranging offices. Says Wurdeman: "When times are bad, that's when this building will...
...machine, which is electro-magnetic, differs basically from the College's own electro-mechanical calculator and the contemplated Mark III, which would be operated by vacuum tubes...
...more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...