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Coffee & Clinics. Hardware merchants have learned to make it easy for men like Bernstein to wander in for a gimlet (25?) and then persuade themselves that what they really need is a power drill ($25). Manhattan's Patterson Bros., which has been in business since 1848 and used to supply machine shops and small industries, now sells 95% of its products to the shoulder trade. Customers can look over 60,600 items, including ten different types of paints, varnishes and lacquers in 150 colors, shelf upon shelf of nuts, bolts, screws, doorknobs and window catches, all arranged in neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Wider | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...drill grinds no metal against teeth or gum tissues. Instead, a liquid containing fine particles (usually of aluminum oxide) is forced against the tooth by ultrasonic vibrations (29,000 per sec.) of the Cavitron's tiny steel tip, and these particles neatly bore into the tooth without noise or pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Wider | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Such problems are for the statesmen and diplomats of oil, who make their in tricate deals in New York, London or Pittsburgh. The working U.S. oilmen are sure of their own offshore empire, and they are supremely confident that they can drill through almost any depth of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

TIDELANDS SULPHUR has been found off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Humble Oil has struck a deposit 2,500 ft. down, six miles off Grand Isle. It will drill 20 test holes in the next two years, then possibly team up with a sulphur company to mine the deposit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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