Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plastic Foam. A new sponge-like plastic foam was shown at the National Plastics Exposition in Philadelphia. The makers, Bakelite Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., call it more resistant to flame and chemicals than foam rubber. Almost odorless, the foam does not deteriorate with age or from moisture or acids. Among the uses: seat cushions and a backing for furniture upholstery...
Whipple suggests that almost all meteor damage could be eliminated if rockets and space stations were sheathed with a thin layer mounted slightly away from the projectile's skin. Such a layer, especially if filled with certain types of dense, plastic-like gases, would cut the velocity of the smaller particles and prevent them from damaging the rest of the ship...
...Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, surgeons cut into her heart and enlarged the opening of its mitral valve. They anchored a small (½-in.) lucite ball on a steel suture just below the flaps of the valve. The plastic ball can move just enough to allow blood to drain downward into the ventricle. It moves up to act as a stopper in the mitral valve when the heart contracts to pump blood into the aorta...
...months later, Mary Dansereau is the only human with a part-plastic heart. She will have to take life easy for a while, but even before she left the hospital she felt so much better that she was able to kick up a little...
Last week this important index underwent a big change. The Labor Department brought it up to date by including scores of products (television sets, antibiotic drugs, plastic materials, Orion, frozen foods, etc.) which scarcely existed when the old index was drawn up in 1932. Listing twice as many commodities (a total of 1,845), it will provide a more accurate cross section of present-day markets. One change, however, stirred up criticism: 1947-49 average prices were used as the index base of 100, instead of the old base of 1926 prices. Result: when the old index ended, it stood...