Word: liquidizer
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...jampacked wastebasket down to the lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's desk. In San Diego, OPA investigators found a landlord charging roomers $2.50 a week for the privilege of using the front door. In Manhattan, department stores offered a new preparation for sale-a liquid to take the shine off the seat of the pants...
...Habit. Pulque, compounded of fermented cactus juice from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness...
...foregoing are powered with liquid-cooled (Rolls-Royce and Allison) engines of substantially less than 2,000 h.p. Makers of the air-cooled engines (Wright and Pratt & Whitney) which drive U.S. bombers and transports, also produce fighter engines. Except for the new Grumman Hellcat, whose Pratt & Whitney engine is still secret as to power, the following types are driven by air-cooled Pratt & Whitney 2,000s...
...report stated that the average company's total liquid funds could, at the end of 1942 meet five weeks' expenses for payrolls and materials. The enormous costs of conversion after the war will leave the aircraft industry with funds that "may prove inadequate for maintenance of peacetime employment and production...
...farm-committee poll concluded that the first postwar year would put $19,416,000 into the farmers' jeans, 165% above 1939 and only 4% below booming 1943. A banker's committee discovered that the 75% increase in Albert Lea's liquid assets in 1943 over 1941 was enough to pay outright for 55% of the new cars, homes...