Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bouncing Platform. A miniature trampoline for youngsters from 1.5 months to seven years is being manufactured by Tekay Products of Milwaukee. Called the "Kangaroo Kid," it is made of lightweight aluminum, heavy-duty elastic cord, and a gaily colored, tear-resistant canvas mat measuring 38 in. by 24 in., has a safety handle bar on which toddlers can do their tricks. Price...
...when his rented 1957 Chevrolet sedan went off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. Campy was bent into a pretzel within the overturned car. His bull neck probably saved him from death, but the impact fractured the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body. But his doctors were cautiously refusing to predict when Campanella would walk again...
...Mosher, who are fathers as well as savvy old hands at scripting radio-TV shows, e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, manage to combine low-pressure comedy with universal family situations and such keenly observed detail as a wife's nettling way of pulling electric plugs by the cord, or how a small boy can reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because...
...swinish brutality of a man who Vidgren learns too late is none other than the school's "pet sadist," Caligula, who in turn is tormented by an epic inferiority complex, which brings out the classical beast in him. The tragic ending of the affair severs Vidgren's educational umbilical cord and sends him out into the invigorating world alone, happy to be free...
...other industries are discovering even tougher tasks for the versatile isotopes to perform. Tiremakers long sought a way to control the amount of rubber that goes onto each strand of tire cord. Recently, Industrial Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, one of the top sellers of isotope measuring equipment (1956 sales: $5,000,000), developed a foolproof method. As the tire cord goes through the rubberizing machine, it passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today...