Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hate, modern art, gets both barrels: "You don't need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...
...existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy areas within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...
...wave transmitter could weigh less than 50 lbs., said Dr. Hutcheson, and its signal would be strong enough to reach from moon to earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...
...Sewing machine shipments jumped 30% to 35,000; electric ranges jumped to 57,000; vacuum cleaners reached 197,000, more than 25% better than prewar...
Last week, as time ran out on the 30-day deadline, beer went up a penny a glass, coffee 10 to 13? a pound. Then OPA announced percentage increases on 20 more consumer items. Up went electric ranges (9%), box springs (12%), vacuum cleaners (7%), chinaware (7%), radios & phonographs (3%). Estimated cost to the public: $150,000,000 a year...