Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even issued a mouthwatering, 32-page catalogue of their stock. Reason for the sale: the items are outmoded or surplus. Air-minded citizens cannot yet buy airplanes, but they can buy assorted airplane seats, miscellaneous airplane wheels, electrically heated flying suits, fleece-lined boots or a Bendix Scintilla Vacuum Sealed Condenser...
...perhaps the calmest burst of amazing prophecy on record, General Electric's famed Physicist-Chemist Irving Langmuir recently predicted that man would some day speed up to 5,000 miles an hour in a vacuum tube. He thought it would be perfectly possible to build an airtight vehicle, magnetically suspended in the tube and electronically controlled, in which travelers might zip from New York to San Francisco in an hour...
...stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...
...represents everything from 10% of U.S. steel capacity to 100% of a synthetic rubber industry bigger than the entire prewar domestic market. Until U.S. businessmen find out how the U.S. Government plans to dispose of this industrial machine, much of their own postwar planning is planning in a vacuum...
...improvement over a previously developed vacuum process for treating small glass surfaces, Moulton's invention is a simple coating that makes glass and other materials nonreflecting-and virtually invisible. Restricted to military uses for the duration, it will provide the postwar world with such useful things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies...