Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bendix Aviation: vacuum pumps for testing carburetors...
Last week Nelson Rockefeller's men were still busy talking to the U. S. companies which had pro-Nazi agents in Latin America. Some changes, with or without Rockefeller prompting, have already been made. Socony-Vacuum's former Monterrey manager, Herr Wilhelm Giesecke (a regular caller at the Nazi Consulate) is "no longer employed." Joseph A. Heedles, the U. S.-born (Brooklyn, N. Y.) member of Mexico City's famed distributing firm of Heedles & Breidsprecher, longtime agents for Du Pont, Remington Arms, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., etc., this month bought out his German partner. Some U. S. exporters...
Ownership of Owens' "suction" process (socalled because molten glass is sucked into a mold by vacuum) passed to Owens-Illinois Glass Co., now largest glass-container manufacturer in the U. S. Patents on the only other successful modern method (the more recent "gob-fed" process in which blobs of molten glass are dropped into molds) have been held by Hartford-Empire. Through cross-licensing agreements, Hartford-Empire gained influence over both methods, placed itself in a position where for all practical purposes no manufacturer could make a single bottle if Hartford-Empire turned thumbs down. Hartford-Empire...
Phase II. The fight over the executive secretaryship showed clearly that the harness hasn't yet begun to fit the horses. But the great mess of the NDAC was being cleared up, as by a giant vacuum cleaner. The stink of it had apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott...
...content of pasteurized milk remains high. Oxidation of the fat content may then cause papery, oily, metallic or tallowy flavors; worse, it may diminish the natural proportion of vitamin C. Obvious answer, proposed by scientists at Cornell University: take the air out of the milk. They announced development of vacuum equipment which de-aerates 1,500 quarts...