Word: liquidizer
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...little man's name was Magee-"Doctor" Robert Magee. He said he had a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He showed O'Connor some samples of aluminum he had treated with his mysterious liquid. O'Connor's eyes bugged. The samples gleamed like silver. O'Connor's business had fallen off after V-J day. But if he could produce a gleaming surface without the expense of buffing and polishing, he could get more orders than he had handled during the war. He hired Magee, enlisted a patent attorney, and prepared...
...Doctor Disappeared. Police officers and fire authorities, interviewing O'Connor, were amazed and baffled by his description of Magee's secret liquid. They began checking his background...
Totaling up their liquid assets late last night, directors of the CRIMSON'S spring competition unearthed a few stray bottles of eight year old lager beer and announced that opportunities for late-comers to try their hand at the newspaper game were still open...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...