Word: liquidizer
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...liquid-air rocket bomb" that can be fired against targets 70 miles away...
...basis of a vacuum's industrial usefulness is that it makes it easier to change a solid or liquid into a gas. Under normal atmospheric pressure (760 mm.), the pressure of air molecules prevents or retards the evaporation of molecules from liquids or solids. Evaporation may be speeded by 1) heating, which makes molecules move faster (as in boiling water), or 2) reducing air pressure. Heating, however, may change the chemical make-up of a substance (e.g., heated food often loses vitamins, heated magnesium oxidizes). Industrially, the ideal method would be to evaporate a substance while it is frozen...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...
...president of Chicago's First National Bank of Englewood, he won a nickname (100% Nichols) by keeping his bank 100% liquid during the depression...
...show his distrust of the New Deal, Banker Nichols refused to make loans. He advised depositors to "bury your money in a tomato can." He fought the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. bitterly. He switched the bulk of the bank's assets to the most liquid thing he could think of- $100,000 bank notes, which he tucked into two safety deposit boxes...