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Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...calm." Retorted Benoist: "It is hard, Monsieur le President, after eight years, to remember these things and to see these men still alive before me." Benoist did not have long to wait. Last week the court sentenced 15 of the accused to death, including a rubber-hose expert, Georges Guicciardini and his son Adrien; three, including another son, null were sentenced to hard labor for life. Stenographer Denise Delfau (who had coolly taken down the testimony of the tortured as they writhed) got 20 years' hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eight Years' Wait | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...mind. Admitted Brown: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet and the mon ey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots . . . pushed her in the swimming pool . . . turned the fire hose on her friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Brown | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...realism. From France there is a lifelike bulldog which shakes its head, opens its mouth and growls at the tug of a leash ($16.95). Ohio's Doepke Manufacturers has a 19-in. fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

master's study, he will give you.the five-ear guarantee for the hose, your dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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