Word: liquidator
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mouse could do the drink any harm. With the air of a man about to demolish an argument, the plaintiff's lawyer got up to cross-examine. Would you drink it? he asked. Sure, said Witness Marsh calmly. The lawyer handed him Exhibit One. Homer Marsh gulped the liquid down. "Can't get the mouse down," he said apologetically...
...circular tray; the unsuspecting diner may find himself commencing his meal as often with a grapefruit as with a leek. Worse that that, the circular trays tend to revolve under the slightest pressure of fork or finger; the centrifugal force generated by a hungry student can send sprays semi-liquid food onto his neighbors. A spinning tray can also cause dizziness...
...down." For three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...
...brother Samuel, 57, a Universal vice president, did not strike it rich in matches until after they had burned their fingers elsewhere. Adolph quit high school to work in the piece-goods business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too. Then the Rosenberg boys borrowed $100,000 from friends (among them: two of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers), hired 15 people and started making matches in a loft in downtown St. Louis. But they had little success until they hit on the idea of putting personalized...
...Cold Does It. Langmuir, the man of theory, soon worked out the "mechanism." It was the low temperature of the dry ice, not its carbon dioxide, that did the trick. Any very cold object, e.g., a needle cooled with liquid air, served as well...