Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly went back to talking in a vacuum. What else could they do in the face of the General's integrity, prestige and stubbornness? Full well they knew that they could carry their point (or lose it altogether) only at the polls-and that there could be no general election until the 3,000,000 Frenchmen now prisoners in Germany had come home...
Because the viewing surface of current television sets is not a separate screen but the glass end of a huge vacuum tube, even an 8½-by-11-in. picture represents a considerable engineering triumph. But prospects of families crowding to peer at this tiny view have long worried prospective television advertisers, discouraged prospective set owners, stumped designers. Last week in Manhattan. RCA-Victor demonstrated its postwar answer. Operating like movies on the principle of projection, with a reflecting optical system like that used in observatory telescopes and a new high voltage tube only five inches in diameter...
...Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...Yale and Harvard, come what might; raised so many roses trying to lift a mortgage that they broke the New York market; financed the development of a pioneer monoplane which crashed along with the Stock Exchange; got through the Great Depression with a pleasant bit of comedy about peddling vacuum cleaners; began to recoup tidily in & about the New York World's Fair; and invincibly began discussing their next move-back-to-the-land-after they saw their sons off to war. The theme of the film, as Harold Pierson states it, appears to be that this...
Died. Herbert Lee Pratt, 73, grouse-shooting oil multimillionaire, onetime Socony-Vacuum Board Chairman; of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. Beginning his empire-building career in 1895 as a clerk in Standard Oil, he became a U.S. labor-relations pioneer by pushing pensions, insurance, shorter hours for 45,000 Standard employes...