Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complained the New York Daily News: "The London newspapers are daily scooping the world, enjoying breaks on stories of from six hours to as many days." Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney complained that the North Africa war was being fought "in a journalistic vacuum...
Eight years ago Bill Eitel and Jack McCullough, two young California radio hams, set out to prove that they could make a vacuum tube higher powered and cheaper than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy...
Messrs. Channing Dooley, formerly of Socony-Vacuum Oil, and Walter Dietz, formerly of Western Electric, are not Washington headliners. Charged with running the Training Within Industry program of the War Manpower Commission, their names have been conspicuously absent from all the discussion and argument of the manpower shortage. Nevertheless, Messrs. Dooley and Dietz have been doing...
...vice chairman, Banker Ferdinand M. Eberstadt, had swept into WPB like a high-pressure area into a vacuum. Energetic Ferd Eberstadt wanted results, right away. He drew up a new raw-materials allocation plan (see p. 90). He demanded that WPB's civilian-supply men quit stalling on their long-delayed program for nonwar requirements. WPB's lethargic old high command worked too slowly to suit him. There were bruised feelings and ragged tempers...
...hopes his course will annoy pedagogical isolationists who have agitated for compulsory college courses in U.S. history ever since the New York Times found last spring that U.S. history study was not required in 82% of U.S. colleges. Let U.S. colleges, says he, stop teaching "American history in a vacuum." He describes his new course as "an exercise in historical imagination...