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Word: plastics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changeable are U.S. communities that new schools can become obsolete tomorrow. Needed: buildings as portable as tepees, as stretchable as the mind. Last week the nearest thing to this ideal was announced by M.I.T.'s department of architecture-a plastic prefab school that can be erected on its foundation in a week, dismantled and reassembled elsewhere in about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plastic School | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...TRADE THAW by Commerce Department promises to increase U.S. exports to Russia. Decision to grant license to Omni Products Corp. to ship $1,000,000 worth of plastic-pipe production machinery to Russia is seen as part of move by Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller to encourage individual trade deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Disposable Toothbrush. A plastic toothbrush designed to be used once, then thrown away, will be put on sale by the Flex-I-Brush Corp. of Lodi, NJ. Filled with toothpaste and sealed in plastic film, the brush is molded in one piece of polyethylene. Price: 10? each, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Also at Canaveral, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tried to fling into orbit a10-lb. plastic and aluminum inflatable sphere that would circle the earth like an oversized beach ball (diameter: 12 ft.), measuring friction in the outer reaches of the atmosphere. The three-stage Juno II rocket itself (a modification of the Army's operational workhorse Jupiter) blasted off without a hitch, but the beach ball never achieved orbit, probably through a failure in the attitude control system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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