Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller, 28, grandson of the late John D., is big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (215 lb.), moonfaced, affable. Like many a less wealthy American, he started college (Yale), but did not finish. He worked as a roughneck in Texas oil fields, then got an office job with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. In the draft lottery he drew an order number in the safe 6,000s. He liked his job all right, but, like many another young man of high & low degree, he volunteered...
...invented the centrifuge rotor that floats on a cushion of the same air that drives it. Last fort night one of his graduate students, Lloyd E. MacHattie, turned up in Philadelphia to describe a new, again record-breaking Beams centrifuge whose rotor is eerily suspended in a vacuum by means of mag nets. It is driven by electrical induction (i.e., without wires). Apparently its speed is limited only by the strength of the steel balls used for rotors. Before they exploded, the investigators got up to more than 6,000,000 r.p.m., to rim speeds of 3,500 miles...
Died. J. Sterling Getchell, 41, founder and head of J. Sterling Getchell, Inc., big Manhattan advertising firm which handles such accounts as Plymouth and Socony-Vacuum; of a streptococcus infection; in Manhattan...
...different sort of "vacuum" approach is taken by the Department in the field of applied economics. Here one course is taught in apparent ignorance, or at least disregard, of the other. Some overlapping is inevitable where subject matters are related; but greater care in administrative coordination could well reduce the abundant duplication of material in Ec 41, 43, and 45, without destroying the unity of each. Even more noxious is the overlapping of lectures within one and the same course, which is quite current in 41, and not unknown in 45 and 61. Closer collaboration between the different lecturers...
...historical perspective, the economic doctrines, as milestones in capitalistic development, assume a fuller meaning than they possess on the blackboard. In the chaos of the vacuum, they provide, indeed, the celebrated "principles"--which the bewildered student drops one by one as he enters the labyrinth of real-life economics...