Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
...light aircraft industry." His name: Dwane L. (for Leon) Wallace, 47, president of Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. A skillful management pilot with a frame (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 Ibs.) as spare as a wing spar and a face as weatherbeaten as a crop-duster's, Dwane Wallace was celebrating his 25th year with Cessna. There was a great deal to celebrate...
...hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among the historic exhibits with the assurance of an attendant waving a feather duster...
Compared to some of the other mink-covered items referred to in your Jan. 13 issue, a mink duster for dusting Cadillacs is really practical. Incidentally, pastel and white mink have for years given an assist to Casper's greenhouses and choicer gardens, so Manhattan's Ferti-Mink [a fertilizer for penthouse plants] isn't so extraordinary...
Here's a picture of the "Mink o' Nine Tails" duster, which shows it is also a bottle opener...