Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contour Couch. Inside the nose cone, Monkey Able was dressed in a space suit and strapped to a carefully shaped contour couch of fiber-glass plastic. She wore gauze and charcoal diapers for daintiness. Since the g-forces of launching are much less (15 g) than those of hitting the atmosphere (38 g). she was suspended face down so that the bed would support her when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change...
...dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...
Died. Elliot Ettelson Cohen. 60, editor of the monthly Commentary since its founding in 1945; by suffocation (a plastic bag over his head); in Manhattan. Though he addressed his magazine to a Jewish audience and filled it with Jewish lore and scholarship, Cohen included political and cultural articles of such vitality and penetration that he won a broad, loyal readership...
...sealed space craft, what becomes of the body heat generated by a passenger? A guinea pig wrapped in a plastic bag would boil to death in its own heat in 15 minutes. And a man in an airtight capsule would cook himself in seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...
Artificial-Respiration Tube. An S-shaped plastic tube for mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration was put on sale by Johnson & Johnson. Designed to revive unconscious victims of near drowning, electric shock or similar accidents, the mouth-to-mouth-tube method of artificial respiration has been adopted by the U.S. Army. Price...