Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more uses for aluminum. General Motors, which has been working toward a small, compact car (TIME, June 23), will finally get it on the road late next year. Main feature: an aluminum engine, which will save 150 Ibs., in turn reduce overall engine weight 30% by means of lighter mountings, braces, etc. Up to now every aluminum engine required either a ferrous liner or a chromium coating for cylinder bores; both were expensive to make and troublesome to process. G.M. believes it has solved the problem by finding a wear-resistant aluminum alloy that can be cast in the same...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
...country to New York (where he received an honorary L.H.D. from the New School's President Dr. Hans Simons, who attended Berlin's Hochschule für Politik with him some 40 years ago) from the Grand Canyon (which, in good statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit...
Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...
...left as he had entered, unheralded. A few laughed, but nervously. Others nodded knowingly and finished their coffee. Silence reigned for a moment, broken finally by a cry, "Hey! Who has my lighter...