Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...
...aeromedical laboratory at Oklahoma City, CAA man John J. Swearingen built a pressure chamber like an airliner's cabin, with seats and a window of thin plastic. He made dummies with the weight, center of gravity and articulated joints of an average human being. He seated a dummy next to the window and pumped air into the chamber to simulate conditions in a pressurized airplane flying at 30,000 ft.* Then he focused his movie cameras and broke the window...
...also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only pictures they had of Otto showed his old, pre-surgery face...
...solution favored by Dr. Graber is to put off surgery* until the child is four or five years old. This need not mean that the child cannot learn to talk, or must learn wrong ways of talking. Dr. Graber holds: a plastic false palate can be fitted to close the cleft, and worn until the age when surgery becomes desirable...
After that, Dr. Cohn showed how the blood goes through a maze of tubes and a series of whirling cylinders. In a plastic bag lined with a gummy substance, the red cells settle to the bottom. Thus separated, said Dr. Cohn, they can be kept for at least a year (whereas by older methods they were good for less than a month...