Word: hypo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darkroom Short Cut. A one-step photo-developing solution that replaces the three separate solutions now commonly used (developer, stop-bath, hypo) is being sold by Manhattan's Cormac Chemical Corp. Called Cormac Unibath, it cuts development time to six minutes v. current 45 minutes. Price: $2.25 a pint, comparable to price of developer and hypo together...
...tricky problem of getting a hypo needle full of the stuff in the stern of an edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...
Grateful for the miracle, Laura tries to change, but soon the old argument boils up again. Tracy dodges a flying ashtray, lifts his fist and drops dead again, this time permanently. While the doctor slips in and gives Laura a hypo, the chorus chants the moral: "The only death in life is the death of love...
This, and not the hypo of sensationalism, is the point of the movie, and the point strikes deep. The picture is sometimes a penny dreadful, because the scriptwriters have seldom consulted their hearts as carefully as they have calculated their effects; and sometimes it is an oldfashioned, hellfire sermon against moral indolence. At its best, though, the story lays bare the naked truth of human bondage, and this truth shines like a sword...
...names," so he makes Miss Brown a straight proposition: in return for her company, he promises to deliver twelve of "the Devil's first-string troops" to prayer meeting come Saturday night. She accepts, but in Havana the track is faster than she expected because Sky puts a hypo in her cow juice. Even so, they are soon lugging in on the preacher for a matrimonial finish...