Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glass Lining. A lightweight, soft Fiberglas interlining for coats was announced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. to go into men's, women's & children's clothing this winter...
Metal Magic. At the National Metal Congress in Cleveland, the industry took the wraps off some of its newest metallurgical gadgets. Among them: a lightweight, 145-lb. industrial X-ray machine made by North American Philips Co. Inc., which can be carried in the trunk of a car, used for rapid spot checks on welds, pipelines, aircraft and ship equipment; a powerful new arc-torch made by the Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. which can eat through concrete in seconds; a hydrogen analysis machine made by the National Research Corp. which for the first time can measure the amount of hydrogen...
...three Fairchild plants on Long Island are busy making everything from components for J47 turbojet engines to Fairchild's own J44 turbojet to power the Firebee robot target plane. Fairchild is also 1) working on a new, 25-ton pocket submarine, and 2) experimenting with a small lightweight earthmover that can be carried...
...simpler demands of "flat," ordinary films. Can CinemaScope be used for anything except ponderous spectacles and chorus lines? Twentieth Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl Zanuck thinks it can, and will attempt to prove his point with the soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Zanuck has placed $35 million worth of eggs in his CinemaScope basket by scheduling a total of 14 pictures for wide-screen production. Already made: a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators, and such swashbucklers as Prince Valiant, Hell and High...
...Miami, Lightweight Champion Jimmy Carter, taking it easy in a nontitle fight, was surprised and jabbed out of a split, ten-round decision by an unranked boxer named Johnny Cunningham, winner of only eight of 35 professional fights...