Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plans and a Vacuum. Meanwhile, Britain and Canada already have firm air policies in print. Britain's was brief, Canada's detailed and carefully designed to distinguish Canada's special interest from the Empire's (see p. 24). But they both called for tight International Air Transport Authority to license all world air routes and carriers and, as Britain put it, "eliminate uneconomic competition...
...vacuum compounded of mistrust and indecision in the Senate, "studies" by the State Department's studious Adolf Berle-and a man to head the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming conferences. The man: ex-U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew, a good diplomat who nonetheless knew nothing about aviation, until he got his new assignment two weeks ago. The only other certainty was that no U.S. air "expert" liked Britain's well-ordered I.A.T.A. All sides were quick to point out that Britain, as the No. 1 sea power, had never seen fit to call for such...
...school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service until 1922. Then he returned to Spokane to begin his business career as a house-to-house salesman of vacuum cleaners. The first two weeks it was no sale. But the third week things began to break. He went on to open an electrical appliances store. Then he founded Columbia Electric & Manufacturing Co., Wayne-Burnady Co. (electrical contracting and engineering), and bought up Washington Brick & Lime...
...Voronov became boss of Red artillery. This was 1937-the year of the great Army purge, of unease and turbulence. Mikhail Tukhachevsky had been "liquidated," and his death left a vacuum in leadership and military thought. Unostentatiously, Voronov moved into the gap. He tightened discipline, increased the number of artillery schools, devised a new system of training, opened special schools for cannon-struck youngsters...
...Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The vapor stream traps air molecules and sweeps them out through a series of locks. With this equipment, Morse got down to a working vacuum of one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter...