Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force can hope to keep. Hero Malden is shown as a man who works an eight-hour day, owns a pretty little ranch house near the base, and sleeps there every night with a mighty attractive wife (Marsha Hunt). He has an automobile, a TV set, beer in the icebox, a pension in prospect, a month's vacation every year, and enough cash in his pocket to finance it. Thanks to his Air Force training, he knows he can walk into a big-pay position in the aircraft industry any time he decides to quit the service...
Just before the rally began, the finance company seized one contestant's Fiat. The jack-booted driver of an Australian Ford showed up with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst...
...Iceless Icebox. For shipping freshly killed poultry and other perishable goods at low cost, an iceless icebox has been developed by Aluminum Co. of America and Stone Container Corp. The carton uses reflecting aluminum foil on the outside to keep products cool in shipment, no matter how hot it gets inside trucks or trains. It is big enough to hold twelve chickens or 50 lbs. of other goods, will keep them at 45° to 48° for eleven hours or longer in temperatures as high...
...patron, Aaron Burr, decided it by sending him to Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
Flattop's Boy. In Trenton, Tenn., after an eight-hour police inspection, Minneapolis Tourist John Sward was allowed to proceed south in his 1942 Oldsmobile equipped with hot plate, fully stocked icebox, cooking utensils, groceries, bed, solar-heated water tank, showerbath, and, lashed to the roof, a bicycle for use in case of breakdowns...