Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solar Time. A new clock that gets power from light has been developed by General Time Corp. The clock, which will go on sale around Christmas, will operate for a month on 24 hours' exposure to sunlight or incandescent light. Price: around...
...Made Mink. Manhattan's Collins & Aikman Corp. will soon put on sale a synthetic mink, which it claims looks like the real thing from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...
Static-Free Synthetics. Two new processes to eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...Station. A television broadcasting station so compact that one man seated at the controls can operate it, showing live action, film or slides or focusing on himself for commercials, was put on sale by Siegler Corp.'s Hallamore Division. The system is designed as well for closed-circuit use in industrial plants and for tie-in with pay-as-you-see television. Price: about...
Conditioned Reflex. The late Howard Swiggett (he died last March at 64) was the better author, and The Durable Fire is the livelier, more levelheaded book. Stephen Lowry, a new vice president of Continental Industries Corp., hopes to stockpile enough cash in ten years to get back to his unfinished book Principal Errors of Judgment of Rulers and Peoples Since the Reformation. Steve's principal error, as Author Swiggett sees it, seems to lie in thinking that a few miles of Long Island Railroad track can separate the company's time from his own. While Steve never becomes...