Word: oilcans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many phenomena were hoaxes by practical jokers. A woman in Seattle reported excitedly that a flaming disc had landed on her roof. When examined by federal agents and Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
...Sunny Smile. There are plenty of bright young wheels in the ABC machine. The biggest, Executive V.P. Bob Kintner (who was once half of the Alsop & Kintner column-writing team), is only 37. But the most important item in the plant is "The Oilcan"-easygoing, 47-year-old Mark Woods.* Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
When war came Vortox soon got orders from builders of both light and medium tanks. Made in several designs, the commonest form of filter looks like a glorified five-gallon oilcan painted Army green. Inside is a complicated mechanism whereby incoming air is subjected to centrifugal action and to a violent cleansing oil spray before being passed along to the carburetor...