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...campaign in favor of the scythe versus the sickle, awarded a silver medal to a nine-year-old artist prodigy named John Millais. By publicizing methods of preserving fish, it was largely responsible for establishing the British salted fish industry; by offering rewards for the invention of an effective chimney brush, it ended the necessity for chimney sweeps...
...proctors were placed by the chimney with care...
Exhaust Defumer. A chimney device that eliminates chemicals and noxious fumes from the smoke of industrial plants has been adapted for use on diesel trucks and buses by Oxy-Catalyst Manufacturing Co. (TIME, June 9, 1952). Called the "oxycat," it consists of a series of alumina and platinum alloy-coated porcelain rods. The company plans a similar unit for cars...
Well, Virginia, every year about this time we've been telling you that Santa Claus exists all right, that he'll be down your chimney this year with his bundle of presents, round and jolly as ever. So this year we sat down and said to ourselves, have we been giving this kid the straight dope these many years? Is there really a Santa Claus this year...
...same old spirit prevails. Santa Claus has not yet been, cleared of all the suspicions he occasioned by wearing a red suit and giving money to the poor. But he has been given a security clearance to make the rounds this year, and he'll be coming down your chimney next week if you haven't put up too many screens to guard against subversive infiltration. The Christmas spirit is still alive and kicking, Virginia, and Santa Claus, even if he is forced to wear red, white, and blue, and carry a pass, will still be Santa Claus this year...