Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation, a yacht was a floating palace with a crew of 60 or so, who had, among other things, to be outfitted in changes of winter and summer uniforms. Since those days the definition of a yacht† has relaxed. Anyone with the price of an 8-ft. kit boat (under $40) can become a yacht owner; anyone with an itch to get out into a boat can be a yachtsman. Last week an estimated half million or so of them were sluicing along under sail, while another 4,300,000 owners of power boats of one kind or another...
...Appalled by the weight of clothing and paraphernalia which Elizabeth must bear during the long ceremony (some 30 lbs., the equivalent, they said, of full kit and arms for a British soldier), testers hung the same weight on a London actress for a four-hour practice session. Reported a doctor at the end: swollen ankles, madly beating pulse, spots before the eyes...
Dogs & Dollars. Though he knew nothing about art, Klein soon had an idea that was even better. He hired a chart and poster man named Dan Robbins to turn out sentimental scenes of landscapes, flowers and dogs for an oil-painting kit containing a palette, paint, brushes, and a canvas printed with designs divided off into numbered sections. By just filling in the numbered areas with the correspondingly numbered paints, anyone could turn out a copy of the original picture...
...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
Fast Color. With new kits made by New York's Artone Color Corp., chair coverings, curtains and dress materials can be painted with designs in color which will not run and need not be baked on or chemically fixed. Each set contains enough specially treated watercolors, brushes and stencil designs to make 150 patterns, which can be washed, dry-cleaned or exposed to sun without harm. Price per kit: from...