Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...
...such "reparations": microfilms of documents prepared by German scientists themselves. Packed with detailed drawings, research results, minutes of technical meetings, the microfilms contain the compressed know-how of Germany's famed and closemouthed industries. Eventually they will cover the whole range of German research, from synthetic fuels to plastic dental fillings. Price of the first film (wartime developments in aluminum processing...
Control center of the computator is a 60-foot plastic wall, overspread with instruments, dials, and bulbs. Behind the panel lies 3000 square feet of steel framework, housing the multi-colored units which store and operate on the numbers...
...same time, Norman Brooks '49, chairman of the committee, appealed for 60 more workers to help direct activities at local settlement houses and boys' clubs. Special calls have come in for students with ability in metal-craft, plastic modeling, and glass painting, he disclosed...
Home Builder. Plastics were also well represented at the show. Beetle Boat Co., Inc.'s 12½-ft. centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...