Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed retiring President W. S. Watts, Louisville's Eskimo Pie Corp. named New Dealing Businessman J. (for Julian) Louis Reynolds, 43, son of Reynolds Metals Founder Richard S. Reynolds, whose United States Foil Corp. controls both Reynolds Metals and Eskimo...
...During the 1944 campaign, anti-New Dealer Knutson unwittingly played the foil to F.D.R.'s wit by spreading an unfounded rumor: Roosevelt's pet Scottie, Fala, had been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...
...Stanford scientists made their find with the most powerful "microscope" known to science. Its "eyepiece" is a 2½-ton magnet, its light source a giant accelerator that spews electrons in a thin stream. Fired at sheets of metal foil, the electrons whip through the metallic nuclei where they are shoved and twisted by faint electrical fields. In the huge eyepiece, the scattered electrons are counted, their new paths traced. All their measurements told the Hofstadter team that though the center of the nucleus is 130 trillion times denser than water, its edge thins down to cottony fluff...
Packaged Meals. A foil-wrapped package of dehydrated and concentrated foods that will feed four people for a day was put on sale by Bernard Food Industries, Inc., Chicago. A 9-lb. pack, when mixed with water, expands into 25 Ibs. of food (griddlecakes, soup, stew, biscuits, etc.), plus salt shaker, cup, pot cleaners and a first-aid tube with a medicant that can be used for everything from insect bites to shaving cream. Price...
...there is an obvious foil for these novices sculling for the first or second time. It is the little band of men who glide smoothly up and down the river in sleek, narrow shells with red and silver trim...