Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This odd legal vacuum, caused by science, affects much more than the squabbles of dry-land farmers. The General Electric Co., which developed scientific rainmaking, has stopped all outdoor experimenting. G.E. lawyers get the horrors when they think of what might happen to the company if one of its planes made a dry-ice-sprinkling flight just before a cloudburst. They might be drowned in damage suits for years. Even the Army & Navy have been jumpy since they were accused of "meddling" with dry ice and herding a hurricane toward Georgia (TIME...
...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...
Even before Sun acted, Acting Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman had called for price control and rationing of oil, along with coal. Socony-Vacuum was already rationing its East Coast dealers, and last week Standard Oil of Kentucky did the same for its 3,000 Alabama dealers. But the industry was still on the price spot...
...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...