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Hugh Butler's mathematics got quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...
...said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical for many years. But the Federal Communications Commission is already planning to reserve part of the postwar radio spectrum for wireless heating and cooking.) > An electric heat lamp. Resembling a flat-lensed sealed beam headlight, with a 750-watt bulb inside, the device generated so much heat that bacon & eggs could be cooked on it. Such lamps are now used to dry paint on military equipment in three minutes...
...shatterproof light bulb, with a strong filament and lacquer coating, that could be banged on a table without breaking...
...implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table. There was lightning and thunder, the splitting of skin, the convulsions of choking from the grimy sponge they...
Latest name for flashing light, alias "blinding bulb." Now the pensive Mr. Lange comes up with "flickering filament.". . Bad Habits Department: K. W. Deadler's insistence on reserving his timid and apologetic queries until just on the hour when it's time for the smoking lamp to light...