Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffee is vacuum-packed by some canners because the oxygen in the air diminishes freshness and flavor. It occurred to Engineer Jay Erwin Tone of Des Moines that freshness and flavor might be even better preserved if, after air was pumped from the can, it was replaced by vapor from fresh-ground coffee. After several years of puttering, he invented a big machine which fills 3,000 coffee cans an hour with such vapor...
...distance with an electric detonator shattered a 40-foot telephone pole, blew chunks of kindling 150 feet into the air. When Inventor Barlow put five pounds in a dugout, set it off, earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge can, like Joshua's trumpet, make armies tremble...
...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...
More than sheltered has been Japan's little Crown Prince Akihito; he has lived in a positive vacuum. At the age of three he was removed even from his own family, shut up in a house of 774 mats (3,096 square yards of floor space) on the Palace grounds, under the constant surveillance of four tutors, two governesses, three physicians and 60 retainers. At the age of five he was permitted to meet eight hand-picked noble moppets, who visited his compound on Saturdays and squabbled over his princely bicycle and sandbox, while Akihito stood by and gaped...
Sixteen other German barges were still held, with five Hungarian ones, two belonging to Socony-Vacuum. The Yugoslav permits are a new clog in Germany's supply line wherein the fine hand of British diplomacy may or may not be seen. Should Germany decide to impose her own control of through traffic on the Danube, fireworks might well follow in the Balkans...