Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced: "I now start the flow of power into the arteries of this farmstead." Actually he did nothing of the sort because the switch box was only a ceremonial dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were warmed in an electric incubator, while in the poultry house hens were urged to extra efforts by ultraviolet...
...morning that Edward VIII gave new standards to his Guards, Jerome Bannigan, a clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon...
...were the prominent New Dealers not at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia last week. One absentee was Franklin Roosevelt who remained in Washington. Another was his wife, Eleanor, who at Reedsville, W. Va., her favorite subsistence homestead, awarded ribbons in a fiddlers' contest and received the first vacuum cleaner assembled as an industrial job by the homesteaders. The President did not have a great deal to do except sign some bills left by Congress and say good-by to a few others who were not going to Philadelphia. For him it was something of an experience...
...Corp.'s Chairman Torkild Rieber likes to do things with a minimum of publicity, a maximum of purpose. Last spring the Norwegian-born onetime shipmaster bought from the Mellons' Gulf Oil the famed Barco concession in Colombia, promptly teamed up on a 50-50 basis with Socony-Vacuum for its development (TIME, May 4). Last week Captain Rieber struck another foreign deal with another Standard company, Standard Oil of California. In a terse joint statement from Captain Rieber and Standard's Kenneth Kingsbury it was revealed that Texaco will market all oil produced and refined by California...
Sitting high is Oilman Norton. When title questions are cleared up he will have cashed in by selling 5,500 acres in Rodessa to Socony-Vacuum's Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $15,000,000 and heavy royalties...