Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light snow falling, temperature three below zero, 18 inches frozen base. Best skiing on Smuggler's Notch auto road...
General Foods, which has marketed Birdseye Frosted vegetables, fruit and meat in the U. S. since 1931, chose the Davieses' diplomatic migration to introduce them to Europe. Problem there is transportation, since ordinary refrigerator cars do not maintain the zero temperatures at which Birdseye foods must be kept. Arrangements have been made for a special car to transport Mrs. Davies' cream and other Birdseyetems. Meantime last week a Birdseye specialist, sent to Moscow for the purpose, was having the Embassy current stepped up high enough to power the 25 special Birdseye refrigerators...
...Ceiling Zero...
Interstellar Gas. Until this year the only gases known to occur in interstellar space were sodium and calcium. Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases. In the ultraviolet range of the spectrum of the stars Chi 2 Orionis and Chi Aurigae, Astronomers Walter S. Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory found four lines (one of them almost blotted out by the interference of Earth's atmosphere) which they identified...
...turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...