Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irradiated food, treated to kill any germ-producing material in most perishable foods, can be kept in a simple plastic bag, be preserved almost indefinitely without refrigeration; small air-insulated canteens that can keep food hot for 24 hours in subzero weather...
Feinbloom's new device is a three-in-one, like the executive's trifocals. Most of the field (both sides and the middle) consists of plastic with no magnification, corrected only for distortion caused by the refractive errors in the patient's eye. This is for middle distance-3 to 25 ft. At the top is a thick oval lens, apres Fresnel, with three-power magnification for distance-"infinity," which begins at 25 ft. At the bottom is a similar lens with magnification of 3 to 20 diameters for reading, sewing or benchwork. Cost of the three...
Hope was abandoned that the 12-foot diameter plastic and aluminum foil balloon ever would be spotted...
Cigarette Stogie. Philadelphia's Stephano Brothers put on sale a cigar the size of a king-size cigarette. Price of pack of 20: 35?. Carton of ten packs costs $3.25, includes a plastic cigar holder...
...tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...