Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motes, designs and operates the hotels for a fixed fee plus a cut (up to 25%) of the profits. Chief arranger, money-raiser and promoter for the company is President Wallace Whittaker, 58, who joined I.H.C. after 18 years as general manager of General Motors' Inland (rubber & plastic products) Division. Chief operator is Byron Calhoun, 48, a one-time bellhop who became part owner of Minneapolis' Radisson Hotel (he sold...
Navy and Air Force lifted some of their World War II equipment out of mothballs. Aircraft companies began stripping plastic covers off old Corsairs, Hellcats, Bearcats, B-26s, B-29s. The Independence class carrier Bataan had been reactivated, modernization of the old (1942) Essex was stepped up to a round-the-clock operation...
...Force's long-range B-36 bomber, Consolidated Vultee had $250 million in Government orders. Lockheed had the fast F94 on the assembly line (see cut) as part of a $225 million backlog. A jet-powered fighter, the F94 has search radar housed in its ball-like plastic nose, can seek out and destroy enemy aircraft approaching through thick clouds and darkness...
Composed of a single plastic and Fiberglas shell mounted on legs, the new chair is more roomy, stable and luxurious, but just as simple as its predecessor. Pictures of the chair were being reproduced in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and an enthusiastic House Beautiful editor rhapsodically described it as "the sitting sensation of modern design...
...Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed...