Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
After 23 years as a manager with five major-league clubs (including the Tigers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees), bulb-nosed, sun-scarred Bucky Harris, 53, has mellowed. As the Senators' fiery, hardhitting second baseman and one of the best in the majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked shoe on Lou Gehrig's foot to make him drop a throw. As a manager who has gone through some soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried...
...throwing its property on the market for sale, just locks up those plants, tosses their 15,000 highly skilled employees out in the cold, and sits tight. Can the Government force a sale? ... If G.E.'s production capacity is suddenly cut 50%, won't that create a bulb shortage, with retail prices jumping? . . . What the hell goes on here, anyway...
Since rats are nocturnal and deeply suspicious of humans, they had to be conditioned to movie-acting. First, they were put in a small enclosure lit by a 200-watt electric bulb. When they were used to the glaring light, they were exposed to human voices and camera noises blared from a loudspeaker...