Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some kinds of radiation, Dr. Collins says, his scintillation counter is at least ten times as sensitive as a conventional Geiger counter. It can also distinguish between different types of particles, which the Geiger counter cannot do without screens or other extra equipment...
...skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
...cures administered to psychotic calculators are weirdly like the modern cures for insanity. One method is to overload the calculator with an extra strong electrical impulse in hope that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
...shmoo is a friendly, fruitful, gourd-shaped animal that wandered into Al Capp's Li'l Abner last summer (TIME, Sept. 13). Its Life & Times was simply a reprint of funny-paper strips, plus a weekend's work by Capp on extra drawings to make Dogpatch only reasonably unintelligible to readers venturing there for the first time. Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work...
Super-Salesman. Al Capp understands his economic meanings as well as the next $250,000-a-year man. Through Capp Enterprises, Inc., he stands to make an extra $100,000 from the book and 26 licensees who are busily turning out shmoo balloons, ashtrays, dolls, scarves, banks, soaps and suspenders. In a couple of months Toby Press, one of the mushrooming Capp enterprises, will take over Li'l Abner comic books, previously farmed out to publishers...