Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists are beginning to worry aloud about the tens of thousands of "freedom leaflets" spilled from huge plastic balloons wafted over their lands from the West. Western Europeans are apt to regard the balloons (a U.S. idea) as a lot of hot air. But Red army units in Austria opened up on them with antiaircraft guns, and the Czech Communists sent armed guards, at least one of whom was captured, to destroy the balloon-launching sites. Two months ago the Hungarian government made an angry official protest to the U.S. that the leaflets were inciting anti-Communist Hungarians to rebellion...
James Glenn, NBC's man for special effects, imported three varieties of snow for Christmas week: 1) confetti, for stage-trained comics who see no reason for changing a theater convention that dates back to Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand...
...mines of the Seven Dwarfs; 2) Adventureland-an outdoor museum of natural wonders, designed to complement the True-Life Adventure Films, which will offer a Tahitian village populated by real live Tahitians (peddling papaya juice), and a trip down a tropical river past nattering monkeys, gnashing crocs and yawping plastic hippos; 3) Frontierland -"a glimpse into America's historical past" that will give its young customers all the sensations of starring in a horse opera; and 4) Tomorrowland-a showplace for science, where audiences can peer into a simulated atom furnace or jump aboard a rocket ship...
Steel Putty. Devcon, a puttylike mixture of powdered steel and plastic which hardens like steel, has been put on sale for home use by Chemical Development Corp., Danvers, Mass. Already used in industry for molds and castings, Devcon can be machined, drilled and threaded when hard, cements together metals and porcelains. Price...
...plow back 3? of every sales dollar into the search for new products. When an idea catches on, 3M helps customers think up new uses and puts its scientists to work on a whole family of related products. In 1934, 3M brought out a new electrical insulating tape with plastic backing that was such a hit the company soon expanded into a line of 45 new tapes, developed insulating putty, wire-splicing devices and a painted-on wire coating for the electrical industry. Total business, where none was before: $2,000,000 annually...