Word: packets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shake-Out. Salt prepackaged in little (4 oz.) cardboard shakers was brought out by Chicago's Morton Salt Co. Price: about 25? for a packet of three...
...Love You!" When the war was over, Hero Cheshire was unsettled about his role in the world. He wrote an article about how he felt, and got a packet of mail from others like himself. Then he called the letter writers together and proposed that they start a cooperative community in which everyone should do what he wanted. It was a dismal failure...
...this gives the hero any headaches, he easily gets rid of them with a packet of bromides about the impossibility of compromising with evil...
...daring and triumphs of the human spirit, but the cocky exaltation of one who can conquer all without ever rising above the commonplace. For Alec Guinness, here cast in the pose of Captain Henry St. James, was a commonplace man--of that you may be assured. He guided the packet Golden Fleece across the Straits of Gibraltar much in the manner of any ferry captain. Yet in a happy moment of inspiration he conceived a plan for deriving the fullest enjoyment out of his most ordinary work...
...Billion Feast. At present, Hurley uses the new line only for the 3,500-h.p. Wright Turbo-Compound piston engine, which powers the Fairchild Packet, Lockheed Super Constellation and Douglas DC-7. But Hurley wants to use it for all Curtiss-Wright's new and secret family of jets and turboprops. There are two new Air Force turboprops, the T47 and T-49, under tight security wraps: both are reported to turn out more than 12,000 h.p. Curtiss-Wright is also testing a jet engine of great power called the J-67, which develops well over...