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Word: compartmentation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

A Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Somebody Knows Me. For the bowlers themselves, the trip to Texas was a worthwhile gamble. When all the rolling is done, they will share 7,743 prizes totaling $227,652. For the spectators it was always a good show. The list of top teams read, as usual, like a roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prosperous & Proper | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Compressed air previously stored in the compartment surrounding the combustion chamber rushes through the open ports, scavenging out of it the burned gases and pushing them, still at high pressure, into the pipe that leads to the turbine. At last the increasing pressure in the bounce chambers stops the pistons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Turbine | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Standing only 55½ in. high, a good 3½ in. lower than ordinary Cadillacs, the Brougham will ride on the auto industry's first complete air-spring suspension system. Instead of steel springs, the Brougham floats over the bumps on air-filled rubber cushions. Under the hood it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For the Finicky | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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