Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trap Plants. The witchweed-infested area is now quarantined, and strict measures are taken to keep the pest from spreading. The scientists are none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass...
Bedridden invalids may soon become self-sufficient with the aid of a new machine that enables them to get in and out of bed without help. Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair...
...steel and iron works, plus a handful of paintings and drawings, covering some 20 years of production. After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face. He's the best-the oldest and the best...
Said New York's First National City Bank: "Such is the importance of the auto industry, not only as an employer of labor and a consumer of materials, but also as a barometer of the spending mood of the American people, that a successful reception of the 1958 models would have a powerful tonic effect upon the whole economy...
FORD'S EDSEL is off to a fast start. On first sales day, company took orders for 6,649 cars, and more than 2,500,000 auto fans went to showrooms to view new model. Present production, level: more than...