Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italo-Ethiopian War still has the benefit of a large, roving x quantity in bluff, pushing Francis William Rickett, the British promoter who wangled a huge concession from Haile Selassie for Standard Vacuum Oil and then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett...
...Before he left for Addis Ababa [fortnight ago], Rickett held three conferences with Mussolini. . . . Rickett, according to his friends, considered himself badly let down by Socony-Vacuum. . . . [From Mussolini] Rickett, it is asserted, demanded $5,000,000 for his share. . . . Rickett, it is claimed here, then made a provisional deal under which he is to get 20,000,000 lire ($1,600,000), partly in stock, if he delivers to Italy this $50,000,000 concession with its virtually unlimited scope of oil, minerals and other exploitation rights for 75 years. . . . The message Rickett claimed to have sent II Duce...
...gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes in X-ray equipment, a Cleveland plant in lighting fixtures, a Homewood (Pa.) plant in repairs and replacements. The East Springfield (Mass.) factory concentrates on fractional horsepower motors and the things they operate - fans, vacuum cleaners, food mixers, refrigerator units. Refrigerator cabinets, irons, ranges, toasters are made in Mansfield, Ohio. Westinghouse elevators come from Chicago, Westinghouse bulbs from three New Jersey plants of a subsidiary. Bryant Electric Co., subsidiary, turns out sockets, switches, wiring accessories in Bridgeport, Conn...
...also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example, her first meander, starting from a glass...
...Einstein universe the velocity of light is regarded as a fundamental constant. Ten years ago Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson clocked the velocity of light between two mountains in California, got an average result of 186,284.45 mi. per sec. For further precision he built a mile-long vacuum tube. Before the measurements were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after...