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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cool & Dry. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off five room air conditioners, its first in eleven years, priced from $320 to $595. It also demonstrated a new electric dehumidifier that plugs into any 115-volt socket, removes up to 3 gals, of water from 10,000 cubic ft. of air each 24 hours, also doubles as a space heater in cool weather. Price...
...more "loudspeakers" that generate sound waves with a frequency of 19,000 cycles a sec. This is too high-pitched for normal human ears, whose upper limit is about 18,000 cycles a sec., so the office or bank protected by Alertronic seems silent to a burglar, although every cubic inch of its air is in rapid vibration...
...Stadium was indeed an engineering masterpiece. The nation's first example of wide-scale reinforced concrete construction, it contained 250,000 cubic feet of concrete and took four-and-one-half months to build. Concrete-steel girders supported some 4,800 concrete slabs, each weighing 1,200 pounds, to form the seats...
...keep all this fashionably exposed flesh clean, Capri's hostelers must still import fresh bath water by tankers from Naples. The hauling contract has proved to be a gold mine: a cubic meter of water costing 4 lire at Naples sells for 300 lire on Capri. The old adage that "wine is cheaper than water in Capri," is truer than ever...
...buck the foreign businessmen who then monopolized the nation's industry. Starting with two British companies which handled all the dredging of Egypt's irrigation canals, Abboud badgered government authorities until they gave him some of this work. In six months, his company opened up 15 million. cubic meters of new irrigation, and the king awarded him the honorary title of pasha. In 1930,the British-owned Khedivial Mail Line, foundering in the Depression, invited Abboud aboard: he took over the management, made the company profitable, and has since built the fleet from six to 20 ships...