Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour, moved up to roughneck, or assistant driller, at 83?, and lived in a $4.50-a-week room. When he came home three years later, he worked briefly at junior jobs in such family-dominated enterprises as the Chase National Bank (now Chase Manhattan) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (now Mobil). He began taking on charitable responsibilities and helped organize the Greater New York Fund. He became a leader of the National Urban League-not merely a contributor but a dedicated worker who did much to promote job opportunities for Negroes. Lester Granger, former executive director, calls Rockefeller "as good...
...deepened his interest in people and their problems, and at his own expense he made a national survey of veterans' readjustment problems for the War Department. Back in New York he took up personnel work at Socony-Vacuum, and immersed himself in half a dozen philanthropic causes...
...stream to attach itself to the opposite side of the circuit. When that happens, the power stream flows out entirely through the other arm of the Y. A puff of the other control jet reverses the process, just as a small voltage change on the grid of a vacuum tube can control a relatively heavy flow of current through the tube's plate circuit. Like a vacuum tube, the fluidic circuit can thus be used as a switch to turn on or shut off a supply of power...
...factories freed from the rigid grip of central planning, Zhivkov reported output improved and labor productivity nearly tripled. Partly as a result, Zhivkov was able to promise Bulgarians "TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, furniture"-coupled with a shorter work week (down from 46 hours to 44) and a much needed 7% wage increase across the board...
Ohio-born Martin, a freelance magazine writer for 25 years, and a campaign speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, took perceptive daily notes throughout his diplomatic stint. He was appointed to the Dominican post by Kennedy during the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Martin's near-impossible assignment was to try to establish rudimentary democracy in a land that had known nearly five centuries of despotism. As he bade the ambassador goodbye Kennedy jestingly warned: "If you blow this one, you'd better not come home...