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Home Dry Cleaner. For do-it-yourself dry cleaners, Philadelphia's Renuzit Home Products Co. has developed a three-lb. aluminum cleaning machine. Clothes are placed in a perforated cylinder held in a tank filled with cleaning fluid, which is circulated by a hand plunger. Price : $7.95 including fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn to give lifelike imitations of the screech owl's eerie, fluty tremolo. Others carry the Audubon Bird Call-a tiny birchwood tube in which they rotate a pewter plunger: it squeaks like crazy. Latest gadget is a 98? plastic "bird" with a trombone slide that can be made to chirp and whistle arpeggios like an amorous cardinal or sing the mournful minor of the white-throated sparrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIG HUNT WITHOUT KILLS | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...backfield, lanky Tom Zierk, a track start at school and the fastest runner on the squad, is scheduled to start at wingback, and Joe Guglietta, ex-football captan at Worcester Academy, will probably be at fullback. Gugilotta has been noted as an extremely shifty and hard line plunger...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/20/1954 | See Source »

...hustled over with a hypodermic. Though the syringe might hold up to 5 cc. of vaccine, the needle was changed for each child to cut down the danger of serum hepatitis. With a quick, deft motion perfected by much practice, Dr. Salk jabbed the needle in and pushed the plunger until 1 cc. had been injected. Most children let out an "Oh!" or "Ow!" and marched off, self-consciously proud, to another room where a nurse watched their reactions. One of the commonest: "Why. I didn't even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Pipe Dream. VacCo Pump Co., Inc. of Indianapolis brought out a new type of pump for unclogging household drains. Working on the principle of the old-fashioned plunger, the Pull-It Pump can build up a vacuum of 15 inches with the help of a vacuum valve inside the rubber force cup. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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