Word: heat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTH AFRICA Caged Men It was no wonder that the white citizens of Johannesburg were jittery. A man might ignore the 93° heat and the potentially explosive bus boycott that Johannesburg Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
...type most likely to produce competitively cheap atom power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. Late in 1955, the first experimental fast breeder ran out of control at the National Reactor Testing Station, melted its own fuel with more than 1,130° C. of heat, and contaminated the reactor with radioactivity for six months...
...Glare Reducer. A plastic coating that can be rolled, sprayed or brushed onto windows to reduce glare and heat from sun rays was put on the market by Manhattan's Everseal Manufacturing Co. Sold in pale blue or green tints, the washable glare reducer is primarily designed for factories, to reduce worker eyestrain, and for warehouse windows, to protect stored goods from fading and heat damage. Price: $9.70 per gal. (enough to cover...
Usually, occupants of single rooms in boarding houses must provide most of their own furniture, since the rooms are sparsely furnished. Other complaints include spasmodic heat and hot water supply, varying landladies, and solitude...
These costs include all the utilities--electricity, heat, water, and so forth--and salaries of all the employees--caretakers, janitors, porters, maids, and so forth. There will be no change in the porter services in student's rooms, he said...