Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With impeccable environmental concern, Treasury renounced incinerators in favor of pulverizers-machines that munch money, then pound the shredded paper into compact packages. The first pulverizers will probably be installed in the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank in about six months. Within five years, says Treasury, all of America's discarded dollars may be recycled into such products as plastics, fiberboard and roofing material. One proposed scheme-using shredded money for building insulation -would give householders the happy illusion of being literally surrounded by millions of greenbacks...
...meters or more for standard AM broadcast waves)-quickly lose their strength because of moisture in the atmosphere and cannot be sent over any appreciable distance. That problem may be alleviated in the future, says Bell Labs Radio Research Chief L.C. Tillotson, with such electronic relay devices as compact solid-state amplifiers perched atop utility poles and a new breed of communications satellite circling the earth at very close intervals...
...mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads, and a bedroom with a long workbench...
...ultimately the SOS of terrorized hearts trapped between knowledge of their own mortality and ignorance of the dark and quite possibly hostile universe about them. What they are desperately signaling for is a deal. They are the new compact that man tries to make with reality after the death of his illusion that...
...suit was filed more than three years ago. Nader charged that GM had sent private detectives to spy on his private life after the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, which proved to most people's satisfaction that GM's compact Corvairs were worse than unsafe...