Word: liquidizer
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...common man's President had died uncommonly wealthy. His executors assessed his gross estate, before expenses and taxes, at $1,940,999. Nearly half that amount he had inherited in stocks and bonds from his mother; another half-million was soundly liquid in bank accounts, additional securities and U.S. Treasury bonds. Hyde Park property (including $110,520 worth donated to the nation) and the famous stamp collection (auctioned for $212,847) were other principal assets...
Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...item in the treatment was heavy feeding. Patients had to take a minimum of 100 grams of liquid or solid protein a day, were threatened with tube feeding if they balked...
Atom Engines. At war's end rockets powered with chemical fuels (alcohol and liquid oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...