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...this year to fight a domestic glut and foreign competition. Tin has tumbled 13% in anticipation of sales from the U.S. stockpile (TIME, Aug. 17). In steel, the Labor Department index shows that prices overall have slipped two-tenths of 1% so far this year; on certain kinds of pipe, wire and bars, steel producers have been quietly granting discounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Slicing Prices | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Length of Pipe. The crowd in front of the Lyceum had grown bigger and uglier. First it turned on newsmen in a face-punching, camera-smashing frenzy. Then up rolled the 60-man local National Guard unit. It was Troop E of the Second Reconnaissance Squadron of the 108th Armored Cavalry Division, under the command of Captain Murry C. Falkner, nephew of Oxford's late Novelist William Faulkner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: Though the Heavens Fall | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Enraged by the sight of Mississippi men arriving to aid the federal marshals, a man tried to set fire to a truck with a gasoline-soaked rag. Eggs came flying toward the marshals, then rocks. Out of the gathering darkness hurtled a length of metal pipe. It struck a marshal on the side of the helmet, stunning him. That was enough. "Let 'em have it!" yelled Chief Marshal James McShane. "Gas!" Tear-gas guns went off with metallic whoomps, filling the air with blinding mist. The crowd screamed and retreated. But the battle had only begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: Though the Heavens Fall | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...features are covered with hair, the hair is covered with dirt. But just as the customers are about to scream, the monster waddles comically across the floor and revolves a massive iron wheel that looks as if it opened at least a sluiceway in Grand Coulee Dam. The pipe roars like Niagara, and from the end of it rushes-a dribble. With a cake of hope the monster airily washes its face. With a burlap bag it daintily towels off and, turning to the camera, presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leg of Dinosaur | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Newest symptom of pushbutton living is the Feller-Matic Insect Control Unit, which is said to be death on flying varmints, harmless to people, pets, wildlife and vegetation. A network of copper or plastic pipe is laid around the garden, patio or swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: New Products | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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