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...design a radio coil. I make it with sweat and blood and it's the ne plus ultra coil. Then I give it to a producer and tell him to make it just so. Then that bum makes it wrong. So I get into the coil business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tuner Titan | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

WHRB's nationwide search over the summer for a special electrical coil to complete the new hook-up ended last Wednesday in Los Angeles. Splicing units by WHRB special coil are being built by WHRB to put at the intersection of the main cable and the new circuits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Center to Hear WHRB; Station Finds Big Coil in LA | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

Into the sea they went that day, every slithering, slimy serpent of them excepting one. "I prefer to coil me great length up and go to sleep," that one told the saint. "I had never a great taste for drowning." "Very good," said Patrick, "then how about coiling yerself in this box here for it is very comfortable." ;' 'Tis not big enough," said the snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pat or the Pleistocene? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...hiking through G.M. plants, where he enjoys listening to the syncopated rhythm of the production line. While walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because he's got rhythm in his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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