Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
...riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat. There were also excellent pictures by other artists in whose work Rosenberg has dealt: Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Pierre Auguste Renoir, whose appetizing La Source-an amply bosomed nude sitting beside a running fountain-showed the luscious tints and easy symbolism that make Renoir popular even with beginners in art appreciation...
...neat white outhouse with two large signs bearing the words "Rumor Factory." The outhouse and signs are the work of Truman Miller, 43, president of Kinston's Serv-Air Aviation Corp. and a man who knows his flyers. "Any airfield, from the repair shops to the soda fountain, is a rumor factory," says Miller. "They fly in and out and leave the damndest stories you ever heard...
With a furious beating of pressagents.' drums (including the mailing of a million letters and the dispatch to radio executives of 3,000 vials of water from Florida's Fountain of Youth), NBC last week dropped a $5,000,000 blockbuster in the form of 28 new or revamped radio shows. The man tossing the bomb (target: public apathy about radio) is NBC's go-getting Vice President Ted Cott, 36, who arrived at the "Magic 28" after three weeks of all-out cerebration with his NBC associates...
...Kreis stays open 24 hours a day (Schwab's closes at midnight), delivers sandwiches and prescriptions in a black truck with gold leaf lettering, carries such carriage-trade items as $500 hairbrushes and $250 shaving brushes. Like the best nightclubs, it has plug-in telephones (at the soda fountain) and a pressagent...