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...typical Schott deal was his purchase late in 1949 of the Royal Vacuum Cleaner Co. for $2,000,000. By vigorously pushing low-priced lines and reorganizing distribution, he increased monthly sales from $500,000 to $1,000,000, paid back the $600,000 he had borrowed from the bank in five months. He has his own rule for financing a new business: clean up the bank debt by the end of a year with profits from other companies...
...outlined three points that the U.S. should follow to achieve peace in the world. The country should first recreate a power equilibrium to offset the vacuum left at the end of World War II when Germany and Japan ceased to threaten Russia's borders...
...rubber collar in the side. There was a guage attached to the box, and when the cat inhaled--expanding its lungs--the air in the box would be compressed and would cause the guage's pointer to rise. As the cat exhaled, there would be a partial vacuum in the box, and the pointer would fall...
...thought Drinker, can't we reverse the process? First, push air into the box to press on the lungs, making the cat exhale, and then draw air out of the box, causing air to rush into the lungs and fill the vacuum. The two men got to work at once and soon were making the cat breath mechanically by pumping air into...
...tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...