Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy of the Missouri Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond ring, a vacuum cleaner, a radio-phonograph, two wrist watches, a refrigerator, a gas range, a 72-piece silver service, a home freezer...
Squeaking Wheel. The syndicate had been formed with State Department blessing. Ever since early this year, when the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum announced they would cut in on the Saudi Arabian oil melon long monopolized by Standard of California and the Texas Co. (TIME, March 24), the independents had screamed for their share. They protested that foreign oil imports were cutting into their domestic markets...
...flag and the Lord's Prayer. Then Miss McKinney started classes. While she taught one grade, boys & girls in other grades did "busy work" at their desks ("I have no trouble keeping them quiet. They want to learn"). At lunchtime, she and her pupils spread out their vacuum bottles and sandwiches at a long table and ate together. In the afternoon there were more classes, and then sports. Since Miss McKinney never had enough students for two baseball teams, she played first base for both sides ("I'm better at fielding than at running bases...
...everything inside and spin the sphere," he explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...
...shortage began to pinch the Midwest last week. The major companies announced that they would have to ration dealers. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) was first; in twelve central states it reduced gasoline deliveries 15%. Shell Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Socony-Vacuum quickly followed...