Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vacuum Oil Co. (its merger with Standard Oil of N.Y. is persistently rumored, loudly denied), $37,659,458, as against...
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...
March 14--"Vacuum Tubes and Their Application", Professor E. L. Chaffee...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh used Gargoyle Mobiloil (Vacuum Oil Co.) on his flight to Paris. Commander Byrd is using Veedol (Tide Water Oil Co.) in his Antarctic planes...
...grew expert in their flight. When they were young men and in the bicycle business they continued to study aerodynamics. They built themselves a wind tunnel and learned new aerodynamical laws. Two things, they learned, happened to a moving plane-wind" pushed it up from below and a vacuum sucked it up from above. If the plane was slightly curved and tapered from front to back the suction force was about three times the pushing force. They learned, too, how to warp the plane wings, how to steer it, how to control it in all ways. They built their...