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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School's Laundry announces its new method of doing shirts. Boiled down, the system is just this: Shirts are first dunked very quickly into a weak solution of water and soap. Then said shirts are run through a shredder which makes the fabric more comfortable for summer wear by virtue of the long gashes made all over the body of the shirt. Then various solutions of chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

...great has been the goings and comings of the Midshipmen into our quarters asking the age-old question, "What is the key to this Case Method?" that Gil Cross has devised the following formula, Like Gil's life, this formula puts everything down "cold...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...Case Method...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

These are some of the findings reported in the current Electronics by a Westinghouse engineer, H. A. Poehler. Twenty-five states have adopted electrocution as the most efficient method of capital punishment. But the electric chair stacks all the cards against its occupant. It uses moderate voltage (about 2,000) and current (less than eight amperes), and contacts moistened with salt water, to lower the occupant's resistance. This virtually assures instant death, because moderate voltage is best calculated to disrupt the cycle of the human heartbeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shocking Facts | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...also working on a method of water proofing and flame-proofing circus tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Shrink, No Shine, No Runs | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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