Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bassoon what a double bass (bass viol) is to the cello. In its long evolution since Handel wrote for it, it has changed from a vague resemblance to a child's coffin to a strong resemblance to an overcomplicated vacuum cleaner. Its 20-odd feet of wooden tubing are capable of emitting the lowest-sounds known to orchestral music-lower than any at the left end of a piano keyboard. To everybody but a contrabassoonist, its Stygian burps sound like abysmal Bronx cheers...
...secret. But its future uses in the metal industries and in medicine are legion. The design includes some 180 sections, to provide constant accelerating steps of 12,000 volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they can destroy internal cancers without harmful effect on the skin and fleshy...
...Allied Seventh Army ballooned out through southern France in the fastest development of a beachhead since North Africa. The ordinary rules no longer held; an army superbly equipped, trained and led exploded into the vacuum made by i) an unexpectedly weak and inadequate German defense; 2) the French Forces of the Interior...
Flowing Gold. Standard Oil of New Jersey turned in a whopping $71,000,000 of estimated profit at midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...