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...Hodgkin's disease. Main argument for a separate policy (since other forms of health insurance may offer as good coverage) : the belief that fear of the high costs of cancer care keeps many victims from their doctors until the disease is too advanced for effective treatment. ¶ Dishpan hands sometimes take an extreme form in kitchen workers, with eczema and severe bleeding under the nails. Dr. Peter I. Long Jr. of Dayton, Ohio, reports in the A.M.A. Journal that prevention depends not only on wearing gloves but also on keeping detergents from seeping into the gloves...
...Sticking food particles to a plate before putting it in a dishpan to demonstrate the inferiority of a competitor's detergent...
...suds in his wife's dishpan reminded Alastair Pilkington that the surface of a liquid is ideally flat. Back at the plant he floated molten glass on molten metal and found that its bottom side took on a shiny finish. In the full-scale machine, which took seven years to get working properly, a wide ribbon of soft glass is floated in a tank of molten metal (the metal or alloy used is a trade secret). As the ribbon moves to the far end of the tank, it is cooled by a controlled atmosphere and finally solidifies. The result...
...Submersible Pot. An electric coffee pot that can be submerged in a dishpan or washed in an automatic dishwasher was introduced at the National Housewares Show at Atlantic City this week. Manufactured by National Presto Industries (pressure cookers) of Eau Claire, Wis., the stainless steel pot has both heating element and thermostat enclosed in a waterproof plastic base, is the first submersible coffeemaker to win Underwriters Laboratories approval. Price: about...
...talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull...