Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York," he said while we sifted through his myriad news clippings. He showed me letters of congratulations from John Lindsay and Jacob Javits after his successful challenge of New York's birth control laws, and his copies of letters from EMKO Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of a contraceptive foam, which showed he was their "Eastern clinical director...
...last April, he described and exhibited contraceptives to a packed student audience and distributed tubes of EMKO foam to three coeds. That led to his conviction last week in Suffolk Superior Court on two counts--of showing and of disseminating contraceptive devices. The case is being appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and though it may not come up until next spring, Baird already has a plan for his defense ready...
...Force contribution to aviation safety is a polyurethane foam that is stuffed into aircraft fuel tanks...
...capaci ty is not significantly reduced. The or ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating in Viet Nam, the Air Force disclosed, and the Federal Aviation Administration...
...salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...