Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
...scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter, electric cash register, etc. Around the table were nine others: Chrysler's crack Engineer Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric's Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science...
...Rochester, N. Y., a gravid cat sauntered up the aisle of fashionable Christ Episcopal Church during the curate's sermon, gave birth to four kittens in front of the baptismal font...
...Only synthetic rubber now in sizable production is Du Font's neoprene. Better methods and wider sales have knocked the price down from $1.05 to 65? a pound. Firestone, already making neoprene aircraft tires, is expected to announce auto tires of the same material...
Parachutes. Promising to end U. S. dependence on silk (and Japan) for chutes, Buffalo's Irving Air Chute Co. last week delivered an experimental order of chutes made from Du Font's synthetic nylon...