Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the two ships, Quinault Victory and E. A. Bryan, exploded within five seconds of each other, filling the sky with an enormous, blinding incandescence. A howling gale blew and died away as air roared back into the vast vacuum. Then great chunks of twisted metal from the ships and jagged fragments of exploded shells began falling. The people of Port Chicago, asleep seconds before, began calling out in the darkness amid the falling walls of their wrecked town...
...unprecedented niffnaw over the Vice-Presidency almost obscured the rest of the convention. The platform committee droned away in a vacuum after the delegates learned that it had already been written. For the ubiquitous Sam Rosenman had long ago drafted a platform of about 2,200 words. Then several Government experts had cut it down to about 1,200 words, and finally the President had rewritten it in 500-odd words, in line with his desire for a "postcard platform" that rested generally on the New Deal record, at home and abroad...
Civilian Goods. U.S. housewives may get cocktail shakers before they get vacuum cleaners. Reason: articles which need few parts can be made quickest, as soon as metal is available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...More than 600 civilian articles made from iron and steel have not been produced since early in 1942. The deferred demand for such goods includes: 3.5 million vacuum cleaners, 23 million radio sets, 5.2 million refrigerators, 10.3 million electric irons, 4.5 million toasters...
...using high-frequency currents to boil penicillin solutions, R.C.A.'s Dr. George Harold Brown can dehydrate the drug in 30 minutes, compared with the 24 hours required by the freeze-drying process now in use. Dr. Brown boils the solution at 50° F. in a low vacuum (penicillin disintegrates at high temperatures). This takes out about 90% of the moisture. A few minutes of freeze-drying finishes...