Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...
...magnetophone, a lightweight sound-recording machine, using plastic tape coated with a special magnetic iron oxide instead of the steel wire in U.S. machines. A mile of plastic tape weighs one pound; the same length of wire 55 pounds...
...Research on hands is not so pressing. The Miracle Hand, for instance, is excellent if properly attached to a good, lightweight arm: the fingers move separately and can pick up any thing from a toothpick to a chair...
...Navy is a little better: 1) some 25 experts at a laboratory at Mare Island are working on strong, lightweight legs in the one & only such Government-financed research project; 2) the dental laboratory at Philadelphia's Naval Hospital is working on natural-looking false hands; 3) Lieut. Commander Lamar W. Harris, dentist at the Navy's Bethesda, Md. medical center, announced last fortnight that he had developed a one-pound, natural-looking hand that works well...
...Kaiser. On details of this venture into the postwar consumer field, Kaiser was vague. The Kaiser would be a "large, yet lightweight car, startlingly different." But the final design has not been set. Neither has a plant been selected to make it nor dealers to sell it. But of one thing Kaiser was certain: the car will be built on the West Coast, will compete with the Ford and Chevrolet, presumably sell for about $1,000 (Kaiser has dropped the idea of making a jeep). With his usual enthusiasm, he promised: the Kaiser will be on the market early next...