Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the same smooth manner that once sold vacuum cleaners at hotcake speed, Businessman Johnston heartily backslapped his way among the proletariat. Flashing his dazzling smile, he shook hands like a polished Wendell Willkie- with workers in an American-equipped ball-bearing plant, in the giant Stalin Auto Works, in an airplane-engine factory. At a press conference he talked about the booming U.S. economy, reaffirmed his belief that there need be no postwar unemployment, showed correspondents newsreels of himself in Russia...
...this came about because of one Anton Jankowski, a Herculean (6 ft. 2 in., 250 lb.) employe of Muskegon's (Mich.) Norge Division of Borg-Warner (plane parts, vacuum pumps, valves). Last November, the War Department ordered Norge to cut back production of gun mounts. This reduced the piecework earnings of its employes. The U.A.W.A.F. of L. promptly protested, but agreed to go along if the company would clamp down on Jankowski. The union had al ready expelled Jankowski for nonpayment of dues. Now the union claimed that his great strength enabled him to work too fast. Thereby...
...throughout an object. But it is conceivable, explains Physicist Gamow, that a group of molecules might accidentally arrange themselves in an orderly movement that would upset this normal condition. Thus all the air molecules in a room might collect under a table, leaving the rest of the room a vacuum. Or (a somewhat less unlikely possibility) a group of molecules might fall into an introverted pattern of collisions that would concentrate energy at a particular point. In that case, a bowl of soup might spill itself or a highball might spontaneously begin to boil...
...Iraq Petroleum is jointly owned by the British (who have the biggest interest), the U.S. (Standard Oil of N.J. and Socony-Vacuum), the French and the Dutch...
Biting Comment. In Indianapolis, Ho tel Clerk Dewey F. Campbell filed a suit for $50,000 against Roger Ferguson and the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., charged that Ferguson, an agent of the oil com pany, on being informed that there were no rooms available, had bitten the end of Dewey Campbell's nose...