Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick freezing of foods is becoming "America's fastest-growing industry," declared Clarence Birdseye and Gerald A. Fitzgerald of Gloucester, Mass. More than 100 food products are now frozen for market. Food, moving on endless belts, is swiftly turned to ice at 25° to 30° below zero Fahrenheit. There are mobile freezing machines which may be moved into truck gardens, orchards and berry patches. Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting. Donald Kiteley Tressler and William T. Murray of Gloucester have been trying to determine just how long...
...masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...
...this industry there is constant need for heating and cooling oil at both high and low temperatures--up to perhaps 1200 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 90 degrees below zero. In order that apparatus may be intelligently designed to do this work it is essential that the engineer have dependable information, so that he is often forced to substitute guesses for accurate knowledge...
This year the problem is to recapture Hawaii from a hypothetical enemy. As the zero hour approached for Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's Blue force to cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris...
...last important city not occupied by Japanese troops, fell before the fierce frost-bitten fighters of General Jiro Ta-mon. Winter was Harbin's best defender. For seven days the fur-hatted Japanese columns struggled north over a frozen desolate country in a temperature of 30° below zero. Finally they closed in on the city from the west and south...