Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vacuum Boring...
...Imagine how dull it is in once of those vacuum tubes--there's nothing in there at all. When he finally let me out, he got me going back and forth in a coil so fast that I got dizzy and got into a gas tube by mistake...
...Almost precisely as if there had never been a strike, WLB went doggedly ahead with its consideration of the dispute, reconvened its fact-finding panel to hear evidence. John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers pointedly ignored the hearing, which thus went on in a vacuum...
...Delegates arriving for the International Food Conference at Hot Springs, Va. found the original foggy agenda unchanged. The mere fact that food experts of the United Nations will soon get together now seemed of little consequence. And in Bermuda the International Refugee Conference continued its dutiful discussions in a vacuum...
This act stripped the gears in the White House. The President did not have time to turn around and rewrite his plea that the miners go back on Monday. Doggedly, gravely the President made his case, but the speech fell in a vacuum. It even confused many miners who were already all set to go back to work, and now heard the President plead that they...