Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forbidden City, to China proper and to Russia. Peking newspapers now reach Lhasa in ten days; before Mao they took several months. One 1,400-mile road starts from Sinkiang, at the edge of Russia, and curves through Tibet parallel to the Indian frontier (see map). From this strategic cord, side roads will point toward every major pass of the Himalayan mountains. The Chinese Communists are also laying down airfields in western Tibet, using Russian engineers and Russian equipment on all these projects...
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...alert, and they had separate nervous systems. Their circulatory systems also seemed separate, and each girl had her own genitourinary tract. But their lower intestines were connected, and X rays showed that the bone structure of their lower spines and the tough dural membrane that covers the spinal cord were joined...
...Music. Columbia Records brought out a small (7 in. by 7 in.), box-enclosed speaker with a long extension cord which can be plugged into its new "360" phonograph (TIME, Dec. 22, 1952) as an auxiliary speaker. The music, coming from both the phonograph and extra speaker, "surrounds" the listener and is reproduced with a richer tone. Price...
Nylon Tires. Three tire companies-Firestone, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber-announced their first nylon cord tires (Goodyear has had one since April). Firestone's is the first tubeless nylon tire, while Goodrich brought out a nylon truck tire, with a tread 46% thicker than usual, which it says will last up to 100,000 miles. U.S. Rubber claims its nylon passenger tire has 95% more bruise resistance than standard tires. Prices run 6% to 15% higher than regular tire lines...