Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Makers predict that production of room units will rise from last year's 1,350,000 to about 1,700,000, and shipments of central air conditioners will go from last year's 224,000 to 280,000. They expect a boost from the record number of new houses going up this year (see Construction); 10% of them will be built with central air conditioning v. only 1.4% in 1952. Says the Federal Housing Administration: "Within a few years, any house that is not air-conditioned will probably be obsolescent...
...virtually noiseless. Westinghouse, Fedders, Emerson are putting out install-it-your-self "portable" models. York is packaging parts needed for installation with the cooler to reduce high and widely fluctuating costs of putting it in. As optional equipment. Philco is offering an "Ionitron" (price: $50) to charge the air with negative ions, which, says Philco after a five-year hospital study, snuff out the sneezes of victims of hay fever...
Cold Seat. A portable car seat that keeps the motorist cool by forcing a draft of air under and behind him will be put on sale by Comfort Conditioning, Inc. of Norfolk. Built like a conventional summer car-seat pad, the cooler has a four-blade fan in a steel housing, draws its power from the dashboard cigarette-lighter outlet. Price...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Vertijets," a documentary on the Air Force...
...station in Cambridge last week began to receive transatlantic radio messages bounced off the moon by a huge British radio telescope. The U.S. Air Force Research Center here picked up Morse code messages relayed off the surface of the moon from the British transmitter at Jodrell Bank. Later messages have been direct voice transmissions...