Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governors could afford to be cool because state unemployment-compensation treasuries, constantly replenished by payroll taxes, are still well filled. With a record $320 million drain in February, the total pool decreased by only $173 million, leaving a huge balance of $8.2 billion. Despite gubernatorial coolness, the Administration will probably move ahead with some sort of plan expanding unemployment compensation. At the same time, it will continue speeding the flow of federal money into the economy. Last week the President ordered Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole to speed up the spending and lending of about $650 million...
Bell for Beauty. Stone fires right back at his critics' glass facades: "Let's face it. Large glass areas create serious problems. Interiors are hard to heat in winter and to cool in summer. The problem of glare is continuous. A glass house is lovely if you own the view. But hell, otherwise you're all displayed to your neighbors in your pajamas. The grille is a basic architectural principle, as sound an idea as two steel columns with glass between them...
...cannot be easily blown away. At 3,000° F. (about the melting point of iron), they begin to soften, but melted silica is sticky, viscous stuff that clings tight until it turns to vapor. The vaporizing process draws heat from the remaining Astrolite and tends to keep it cool...
Missiles and spaceships may some day carry magnets to keep their noses cool when they plunge into the atmosphere. Dr. Joseph L. Neuringer of Republic Aviation Corp. has already worked out a system of magnetohydrodynamic for hydromagnetic) insulation...
...maintain comfortable temperatures in homes both winter and summer. This week the dream was a big step closer to reality. General Electric Co. unveiled a new, three-ton model of its Weathertron heat pump specifically designed for the mass home-building market. The new G.E. pump will heat or cool a seven-room house in temperatures ranging from -20° to 120°. Cost: about $2,000, including installation...