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Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Space Age with a truck-mounted satellite launcher ($4.98) and a skysweeper ($7.98) that throws a plane's image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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