Word: foams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guide designers of aircraft. An airplane that is easiest on skulls, Cornell decided, should hold its passengers as tightly as possible. The things that skulls might strike against should not be small, hard objects, but should be made of thin metal formed around broad shapes of yielding plastic foam...
...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...
...historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market for men, foam-rubber breasts for women, and propeller-bearing caps (Macy's: 46?) for the young...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...always, his activity was accompanied by great public outcry. Millions of U.S. citizens considered him a putty-nosed Canute trying to hold back the tide of progress. The nation was full of editorial writers who swore they could see foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi...