Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasional spots, the postwar world looks as good as advertised. The current issue of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects tells about a new building material called Pyrok. When sprayed from a special gun, Pyrok sticks to almost any surface (from strawboard to steel) and rapidly builds up a wall of any desired thickness. A sledgehammer ,blow dents but does not crack it. It is waterproof, weatherproof, fireproof, and an excellent insulator, but can be sawed and nailed like wood...
...nettle's little stinger is one of nature's meanest masterpieces. In a recent issue of Britain's Journal of Physiology, Physiologists N. Emmelin and W. Feldberg of Cambridge University explained just how mean a nettle...
...drug so powerful that it may eventually replace morphine as the standard painkiller. The drug is a German invention that U.S. researchers have variously called amidone, methadon and dolophine (TIME, April 28). It has been under intensive study in scores of U.S. hospitals. Last week the American Medical Association Journal published an encouraging verdict by a team of U.S. Public Health Service investigators. Among other things, amidone has proved helpful in treating morphine addicts...
Rallying to the rescue of shopping-silly Radcliffe and Wellesley maidens of fifty years ago. The Ladies' Home Journal of December, 1897, suggested that they buy or make for their men friends 'crocheted lamp shades, a sponge bag, or a crimson flannel banjo case...
...Thanks to geography and the far-darting teleprinter, a Fleet Street journal, by printing simultaneously in Manchester or Scotland, can be truly national, circulating almost from Land's End to John o' Groat...