Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...
According to Chapman's theory, the ring of gas (thinner than the "vacuum" in radio tubes) is formed by the action of the earth's magnetic field on streams of ionized hydrogen that blast out of the sun. As the protons and electrons from the sun approach the earth, they are deflected away from it by magnetic forces. Some of them settle into a ring above the earth's magnetic equator.* Eventually, they escape, curving down to the atmosphere to cause certain kinds of auroras. Their departure weakens the ring current, but it is soon restored...
...office buildings. Their recent constructions in Manhattan have been compared both to wedding cakes and to Assyrian ziggurats, and have more layers than the former, more bulk than the latter and about as much esthetic merit as both combined. Says Percy Uris: "We're not building in a vacuum. We're building in a market...
...this week by Regency, a division of Industrial Development Engineering Associates. It is not quite the wristwatch radio of the comics, but it is only a small pocketful (3 by 5 by 1¼ in.), and it makes loud music, on a single hearing-aid battery. Inside, instead of vacuum tubes, it has four transistors...
...next eight months. Shell Oil Co., which supplies 70% of the northern market, frankly hoped that business would return to normal after a while. Said a spokesman: "We will try to continue our operations in the north." But the two U.S. oil companies in Indo-China, Standard-Vacuum and Cal-tex, were not so hopeful. Stanvac closed down completely in Hanoi, was only doing a small business in Haiphong. Caltex took out everything movable. Said one veteran Caltex man: "Our experience in China, where we lost five huge refineries, taught us that there is no possibility of coexistence with Communists...