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...hesitated to prosecute (last year only 424 criminal actions were filed against Federal tax delinquents). The problem was, the case had to be airtight against the erring taxpayer; for one thing, judges and juries were apt to sympathize with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...
Glass Sandwich. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced a new "folding glass," that can be collapsed like an accordion. It is made of thick glass sections joined together by a flexible airtight plastic. First use: in large, full-vision rear windows in the '49 Hudson convertible...
...defenses were almost as airtight. Time and time again Crimson attacks were foiled by alert man-to-man defense, which--appropriately enough--covered its opponents with bulldog tenacity...
...articles called plastic"), Tupper has developed machinery to press it into 25 pastel-shaded houseware items ranging from poker chips (100 for $1.98) to double-walled ice-cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered aluminum cups and plates; patients could damage Tupperware only by persistent chewing...
...mural itself will serve as the back wall of a new airtight chamber, to be kept at about 64°. The front wall will be a sheet of glass 46 feet high, for visitors to peer through...