Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising a Washington fur sale, a gabby disc jockey substituted the word "potatoes" for dollars, cried: "You can get this coat for 497 potatoes." A paper-box factory foreman named Cecil Lineback took him at his word. He hurriedly bought the potatoes, rushed into the furrier's, and, after hours of heated negotiation, walked out with a sheared beaver coat...
...saucer-sized disc inscribed with the Latin words: "Altius, Citius, Fortius," meaning, roughly: "Anything you can do, I can do better...
...glass disc arrived at the Pasadena optical shop of the California Institute of Technology to be ground and polished. The 20-ton blank was placed face up on a turntable. As it revolved slowly, a 48-inch disc set with blocks of abrasive was stroked mechanically back & forth from its edge across its center. The whole process was maddeningly tedious...
...August of last year, the worst was over. Dr. John A. Anderson, who had supervised the polishing, knew that he had succeeded. He set the great disc on edge for the final tests, which it passed with flying colors* (TIME, Oct. 13). Seven weeks later, it was crated and trucked up Palomar Mountain...
After the hair oil was removed by an electric blast of "ions," the great disc was "silvered" with vaporized aluminum. At last, the big eye was finished...