Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received a cable from Field Marshal Hermann Goring telling him to come home and mediate the Russo-Finnish peace. He sailed to Italy on board the same boat as U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, proceeded to Berlin at about the same time. Having made mints from vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Axel Wenner-Gren is influential in money markets, but his only experience in international crises was accidental-while cruising in his huge Southern Cross he came on the sinking Athenia and rescued some of the survivors. Nevertheless, his good friend Herr Göring thought he might...
...reason: demand for fuel oil, normally a by-product of gasoline, continued to rise. Now gasoline has become virtually a by-product of fuel oil because refiners are compelled to make more & more unwanted gasoline in order to fill their fuel oil orders. To help move surplus gasoline, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. cut Mobilgas from...
...Another thing we did was to find out why the old Liberty airplane engines of that day wouldn't run over fifteen thousand feet", Professor marks continued. "We did that by building a vacuum chamber where we could study the engine under actual condition of low-pressure, low-temperature altitude flying. We found out that the trouble was in the gas mixture, so we fixed that, and the planes afterwards could fly higher...
...getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where penguins can be seen swimming under water. The Marineland tanks have 200 glass portholes through which the fish can be seen from the side and from below. The tanks get 2,000 gallons...
Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...