Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight...
...smoothly rolling production lines came 17,000,000 radios, 3,000,000 vacuum cleaners and 3,500,000 washing machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over...
...made cyclotrons work by making electrically charged particles (such as deuterons) circle faster & faster inside a vacuum chamber. On each trip around, they get two boosts from a rapidly alternating electrical field. If the vacuum chamber were big enough, they might move in straight lines and pick up their energy from one long boost...
This is what may happen, said Menzel & Salisbury, in the great "vacuum chamber" (space) outside the earth's atmosphere. They start with the assumption that disturbances (such as sunspots) on the sun's surface send out powerful radio waves about a million miles long which set up "transient fields" in space. These pick up wandering protons and give them a mighty, long-lasting push. When the protons hit the earth's atmosphere, they have enough energy to rate as cosmic rays...
...Telegraph Co. The other 51% of Mexicana is owned by International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see above). For that, Wenner-Gren agreed to pay I.T. & T. some $11 million, raised by selling other Swedish holdings and using U.S. dollars earned by his stock in Servel, Inc. (refrigerators) and Electrolux Corp. (vacuum cleaners...