Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refrigerators and vacuum cleaners were 7% above May, but still below...
Most automatic fire alarms are set off by a fire's heat ; by then the fire is usually blazing merrily. A Socony-Vacuum physicist named Paul B. Weisz thought he could do better. Last week, in Electronics magazine, he announced an ingenious ray-catching tube so sensitive that it can detect a match flame at 60 feet in broad daylight. The basic idea of Weisz's gadget is the detection of minute quantities of ultra violet radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation...
...existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy areas within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...
...Production of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, gas-ranges, shoes, men's suits, automobile tires, was at prewar or above. Production of refrigerators and electric ranges was better than 60% of prewar. ¶ Automobile and truck production was up to 65,000 units a week (half of 1941). Steel production was up to 87.2% of capacity. The end of the number one shortage, copper, was in sight...
Albert Einstein, then an unknown clerk in a Swiss patent office, rescued science. In his Theory of Special Relativity (1905) he abandoned Newton's assumption of independent mass and force. In its place he put the assumption, well supported by observation, that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant, no matter what the speed of its source...