Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States, on the other hand, are committed to speedy victory and to effective measures to preserve peace thereafter. But in the field of definite and practical aims there seems to be a vacuum...
...Houston office with the magic for mula. Today the Harwell plant at Houston produces 1,200 barrels of Huzenlaub rice (called "converted rice") a day, all of it sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel; then the rice is husked and polished in the usual...
...Selling vacuum cleaners, reading the want ads, living for five days on onion sandwiches, watching crises come so fast they did not know they were crises, the Piersons proved in their own careers that the enrolling avalanche of ill-fate was only part of the story. When they were almost starving, the boys, coming out of steel mills and preparatory schools, won scholarships at Yale...
Have you met Oscar is the oscilloscope gremlin. He is a fiendish little fellow with a head like a vacuum tube and a greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything...
...University of Minnesota, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher has developed a one-man "belly still" (worn strapped around the waist) which uses body heat to boil sea water at low temperature, under partial vacuum, to yield drinkable fluid...