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There were 22 pages of buggies in the 1896 book, none in 1933; the famous Covered Wagon went thataway permanently after the 1923 catalogue. "Radio apparatus" made its debut in 1919 under "Telegraph instruments." Silk stockings showed up in the 1912 catalogue for the first time, with the warning: "Treat them carefully." Pajamas made a coy appearance in 1899 for men only; twin beds appeared in 1921. Women's fleece-lined bloomers and men's congress gaiters (high shoes with elastic inserts, no laces) held on as late as 1939, then followed the fur derby into history...
...handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
...transistors for radar and navigation aids cost ten times as much as vacuum tubes doing the same job, but the mighty mites do not require cooling, as do the tubes. This saves some $50,000, the cost of addkional power plant and airplane structure to carry the cooling apparatus, as well as cutting the weight of the plane...
...counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political and party control apparatus in his own hands. But as Minister of Public Security in the National People's Congress (i.e., legislature), Lo has modeled his machine on the Soviet MVD and become the nearest Chinese equivalent to a Beria...
Many nonmilitary uses are also showing up. Since Eva was declassified, Baird Associates has been getting inquiries from industries that want to chart hot spots in electronic apparatus, find flaws in hot metal parts. Another obvious use is to check the insulation of a building by taking a snapshot of the heat escaping through its walls...