Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inoculated it with deadly organisms: these died or remained dormant. The meat lost some protein value in the drying. In the dehydration, the meat is exposed to great heat, practically precooked, then put into dry air to drive off at least 90% of the moisture. It must be vacuum-packed in tin cans until other packaging can be found. To reconvert the dry, powdery meat, it is soaked in water for an hour, boiled ten minutes, simmered for 10-20 minutes...
...industrial king he is-not as a criminal. And he was a king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt who was deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace...
Trouble was, nobody much wanted him to render his service. Since Tobe's noise suppressers go on everything but the radio, he had to try to sell vacuum-cleaner and hair-dryer and clock and fan and telephone manufacturers on adding it to their products. In the depression most of them had enough trouble as it was, without monkeying with a radio silencer no one had ever heard...
...heavy losers were the big oil companies. Dopesters put the cost to the industry at about $300,000,000 for the year, about $200,000,000 less than combined profits of the 20 biggest units in 1941. Although predominantly Eastern outfits like Atlantic Refining, Sun Oil and Socony-Vacuum will be hardest hit, the whole oil industry faces its worst economic crisis since the depression...
Paraflow was a gold mine: it yielded Standard more than $1,000,000 a year, or a gross profit on sales of some 50%. It was so good, in fact, that Socony-Vacuum tried to save itself royalties by inventing a substitute. This was Santopour, which was sold at the same price but was, in some cases at least, more effective...