Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...market was back, and "a lot of companies and individuals who rode the gravy trains of easy prosperity will be reduced to walking the rails again." But there are plenty of opportunities; 27 million Americans still have no kitchen sinks, 18 million have no washing machines, 25 million lack vacuum cleaners, 40 million have neither bathtub nor shower. The job of supplying such needs could keep business hopping for generations...
...Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods her greetings and disappears into the dressing room...
...week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved] in attempting to keep the stream of justice undefiled by sensationalism . . . [But] trials cannot be held in a vacuum, hermetically sealed against rumor and report...
...doctors began by taking half a pint of blood from the sick girl, and transferring it in a standard vacuum blood container to the veins of the convict. Next, they took a pint of his blood, gave it to her. Then the exchange was made pint-for-pint for four days (a five-hour session each day) until a total of 9,000 cubic centimeters (18 pints) had been interchanged. Last week, the transfer over, the lifer went back to his cell, the girl to her Manhattan home...
...directors, industrial doctors and nurses, to demonstrate the skills handicapped men & women can master. In a sample scene a wife with one arm expertly ran a sewing machine, and teased her husband, also one-armed, into helping her fix the house for a bridge party; he deftly whisked a vacuum cleaner around the room, then hung a strip of new wallpaper. Then, in a business scene, a stenographer with one leg operated office equipment; her one-legged boss interviewed salesmen who demonstrated golf and fishing equipment to him. Kruger, no longer an active officer in the organization, beamingly got into...