Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave, essentially a sound wave and moving with the speed of sound. Close on its heels came a shattering blast of air displaced by The Bomb's expanding gases. The shock wave claimed its victims by squeezing their bodies, compressing their internal organs, puncturing their lungs. When the vacuum which followed it reached them, the gas in their stomachs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tissues. Then came the blast, at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour, sweeping them over the ground, along with the churned-up rubble and blazing wood. At first, the blast...
...mathematical job. But it was slow; its inner works were like those of an ordinary adding machine. M.I.T. had a faster gadget, but it, too, was largely mechanical. What was needed, said Mauchly and Eckert, was a calculator with no moving parts except the fast-flying electrons inside vacuum tubes. With Army help and money, they built one, in 30 months...
...combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...
...done some overlooking himself. On July 1 he gave the auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally...
...door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows. In future, equally hardy couples may get trips to Paris, new cars, prefabricated houses...