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Destroyer. Crab grass, dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Reader Otis is first cousin three times removed of Inventor Elisha Graves Otis, third cousin three times removed of General Harrison Gray Otis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Land camera and chairman of the Polaroid Corporation -. Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Doctor of Science went to Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Land camera, Jan H. Oort, Director of the Observatory of Leiden, and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, known for synthesizing quinine and other substances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goheen, Hammarskjold, Herter Get Degrees As Part of Annual Commencement Ceremonies | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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