Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service approved a 7½% blanket raise for 1,073,262 Government employees, which will boost the federal payroll by $325 million a year...
Electric Comforter. The first electric comforter was put on sale by the Julee Comforter Manufacturing Corp. of New York City. Similar to an electric blanket, Electropuff is lighter than most ordinary comforters and is mothproof. Price: $24.95 for twin-bed, $29.95 for double-bed size...
...Kerry Donovan took the 50-yard freestyle in a blanket finish which the judges took over 15 minutes to decide. Yale's Rex Aubrey took second, followed by Dick Pennigton of the University of Iowa, Dartmouth's John Glover, Robinson Ord of Cornell, and the Crimson's Chouteau Dyer...
...sign read. "Free medical clinic. Open day and night." Inside the clinic, a former warehouse in a newly liberated village of South Viet Nam, a group of Filipino doctors were performing a Caesarean section on a Vietnamese peasant woman. Their operating table was covered with a G.I. blanket and a strip of white cotton cloth torn from a CARE package; their patient was secured by wires nailed to the side of the table and lifted above her body by wedges of C-ration cans. Their light consisted of one electric bulb and half a dozen flashlights trained upon the incision...
...Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...