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...office has sent some men out to build oil refineries in India for Standard Vacuum: some to work on secret government prospects at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory; others to executive jobs in department stores like Macy's, and still others to designing helicopters for Bell Aircraft...
...Majesty. For its pains, Aramco (owned by California Standard, Texaco, New Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum) got 440,000 square miles of Ibn Saud's domain, the world's largest oil concession, the most productive (866,000 barrels daily) and one of the most profitable...
...striking experiment indicated that heredity can be a decisive influence. Ingalls said that when a completely different strain of mice--brown mice--were put in the vacuum chamber on the ninth day of pregnancy, more than 15 per cent of their offspring had hernias: yet there were no hernias in the offspring of several thousand white mice who had had the same experience...
They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet up, the height of Mt. Everest...
...mice produced a large percentage of defective offspring, and the defects varied according to the stage of pregnancy at which the mother breathed the rarefied air in the vacuum chamber...