Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
From the time he saw his first light bulb, he wanted to be an electrical engineer. He sped through a four-year course at Carnegie Tech in three years, and at 18 went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corp., at 18? an hour. By the time he was 22, he had married (on $80 a month) and had designed Westinghouse's first motor for auto starters...
...people who earn a living measuring lighting do so with ingenious little instruments called photometers, which register in "foot-candles." The unit equals just about the amount of light turned about the amount of light turned out by an ordinary 100 watt bulb ten feet away; lighting engineers have set 15 foot-candles as rock-bottom for any room in which people will be reading or writing. And there is not a big lecture room in the College that tops ten. Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome...
...Chico, head of the working bandits, J. Carroll Naish does a fine eye-rolling caricature of the stock "Mexican general." He is greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...
...away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...