Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
...their New Britain, Conn, plant last week., appliance-makers Landers, Frary & Clark (Universal Appliances) were busy with a new vacuum cleaner which had one radical change from their old model-the price. Instead of retailing at $79.95, the new model sold...
General Electric Co. shaved $10 off the price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine...
...geologists, Dr. Frank Reeves and N. B. Sauve of the Vacuum Oil Co., spotted the crater from an airplane. What they saw was a circular depression more than half a mile across and 100 ft. deep, with a splashed-out looking rim. In general appearance it looked much like Arizona's meteor crater (570 ft. deep, four-fifths of a mile in diameter...
...character somewhere, but nothing ever quite happens to prove the point, one way or the other. In this, as in the effectively drawn picture of David Gerald in love, the book may be true to its time and place; the result, nonetheless, is of David Gerald in a partial vacuum...