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...convertible, a home laundry, two round trips to Hawaii, a trailer, a $1,000 diamond and ruby wrist watch, a television receiver, radio-phonograph, $2,000 in cash, an airplane, a $1,500 beaver coat, a home workshop, a gas refrigerator, a gas range, a home freezer, a vacuum cleaner, suits and topcoats for a family, a $1,000 diamond ring, a heating boiler, a complete housepainting, a houseful of furniture...
...calculator, based on the principle of vacuum tubes, will be intrinsically different from its two predecessors, which are respectively electromagnetic and electro-mechanical...
...Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions...
...Ottawa, strawberry plants bloomed and lilac bushes burst their buds. In Winnipeg, it was pussy willows. As Torontonians curiously watched their city experiment with a new machine that sucks fallen leaves from gutters like a vacuum cleaner, newspapers reported that Oct. 20 was the hottest in history. The high of 76° topped the 1884 record by a full five degrees...
...pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers...