Word: liquidizer
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Time & again he summoned reporters to his quarters. Each time, they ran and lurched through the passageways, expecting a formal press conference, only to find the President wanting nothing more than a few hours of his favorite pastime-poker and liquid refreshment...
Died. Robert Hutchings Goddard, 62, wartime chief of Navy research on jet-propelled planes and first man to fire a liquid-fueled rocket (in 1926), a principle which the Germans adapted for their ¥2; after a throat operation; in Baltimore. Rocketeer Goddard once set a peacetime ambition for his invention:"I believe that a rocket . . . will some day successfully reach one of the planets...
...francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
Since modern aircraft engines demand a very volatile fuel, Standard's fuel would seem to make about as much sense as dousing firewood with water. But Standard's engineers believe that their fuel has been made feasible by recent experiments with new types of engines in which liquid fuel (instead of vapor) is injected directly into the cylinders. At the high temperatures inside a cylinder (well above 105°) the new fuel vaporizes readily and develops as much power as straight 100-octane gasoline...
...example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...