Word: vat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...
...Properly, champagne is fermented and aged in wooden casks through the winter, then pumped into large blending vats where rock candy is added to induce fermentation. The brew is then bottled and corked. The bottles are stacked on their sides for two or three years, then restacked cork down. Daily, an expert workman grasps and shakes each bottle, thus precipitating the sediment onto the cork. Five or more years after the date of vintage, the bottle is recorked for shipment. Speedup methods have long been used by American companies. The trick consists largely in maintaining vat temperature...
Only here & there, the old gypsy songs were still heard, like the strange Romany version of the French Malbrough s'en -vat-en guerre...
...approximately eight beers after 2 o'clock. CRIMSON LAMPOON c. Prince, nr R. Zwoncus, 2b Beupre, sec Vat, 69 Neverstall, bs Ro. Rheault Hopkins, shrdin Ibis, B29 Leavitt, it R. Zwoneus,ss Schwebel, un L.H. Campbell, 3rd Mephredren, po Schlosinger, 9am Snowball, xxx Lowell, p Wattlings, ayd Cabot, c Conant...
Nobody was able to locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...