Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
...hours Ehricke mused over his Helios with three visitors, while he suggested minute changes in the model's engine, then gave his O.K. for its production. A full-size prototype of Ehricke's spaceship may be ten years and millions of dollars away. But next year plastic model kits of Helios, ready to assemble, will be in the hands of schoolboys around the world. Price...
...Plastic politician," said London's Observer; "Organization man," said the News Chronicle; "Very spirit of togetherness," sneered the London Daily Mirror; "Mechanical smile," said the Daily Herald; "Superb political gamesmanship," said the Manchester Guardian. In one of the odd situations of modern diplomacy, Nixon was personally on trial and double-dared to make a misstep...
...startling reminder of A Night to Remember. Lest anyone miss the imminent arrival of J. Arthur Rank's movie re-creation of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic, Rank flacks flooded the mails with swizzle sticks topped by the lost liner tilting toward destruction-gruesome little blue plastic models for sentimental soaks to rattle against the melting ice-cube icebergs in their highball glasses. Thus a casual libation might become a miniature marine disaster. ("Hey, Louie! Watch the Titanic go down in the drink.") If the talents of the movie's producers come close to matching the tastelessness...
Mixi. A midget-sized (1 pt.) portable plastic mixer for cocktails, milk shakes, etc. will be put on sale by the Sibert Mfg. Co., Newark. The mixer will run for four months of normal use on two flashlight batteries. Price...