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...reduce the hazard. Wool blankets, plastic sheets and most synthetic fabrics should not be allowed near an anesthesia machine, the bureau said, because of the danger that they will generate static electricity and cause a spark. Cotton should be used instead. Doctors and nurses must not wear wool trousers, nylon gowns, or rubber-soled shoes. Tables, machines and stools should have non-insulating feet, to conduct static electricity to the floor...
...contestant on Potluck won a string of cultured pearls for singing I Belong to Glasgow while standing on his head. Others got tie clips, nylon stockings, electric irons and toasters for such antics as eating fruitcake with knitting needles and balancing pennies on their foreheads while taking off their shoes. Like all other giveaway shows, Potluck has a studio audience, a thigh-slapping announcer, a full catalogue of physical and spiritual indignities for its contestants. The remarkable thing about it: Potluck is the first giveaway show to appear on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s staid television...
...imaginative fellow, the bored guards agreed. The French police had first become acquainted with Léon's imagination six years before, after they had found the nude body of a White Russian countess lying in the Paris-Brussels road. The countess, who had been strangled with a nylon stocking, was known to have left Brussels with a young French medical officer named Count Vernier de Miraumont. The police finally found the man practicing gynecology in occupied Germany. They soon learned that he was neither a count, a doctor, an officer nor a Frenchman. He was a Belgian metal...
...industry popped out 5,250,000 sets, only one-quarter less than 1950's alltime record. All the goods of peace spewed forth in prodigious quantities: 3,455,000 washing machines, 12,500,000 radios, 4,120,000 refrigerators, 2,900,000 electric toasters, 612 million pairs of nylon stockings. Builders, who had expected to finish fewer than 850,000 new homes, actually built more than...
...Pigs & Nylon. Many companies have started selling rollers which take the backache out of painting walls and ceilings. Said an executive of W. P. Fuller & Co., the largest West Coast paint firm: "Our goal has been to sell not only paint, but a state of mind. Painting has always been a messy, dirty, disagreeable job. With rollers, it's a cinch for the housewife...