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...grown into a $500 million annual business in the U.S. alone. As simple an idea as the aerosol can, first used to spray insecticides during World War II, has puffed itself into a 600 million-can-a-year trade, spraying everything from athlete's-foot powder to instant starch. Even as insignificant an item as the ballpoint pen, which was written off as a national joke when it came out 15 years ago ("It will write under water, but that's the only place"), now sells at the rate of 657 million pens annually worth $142 million...
...bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends...
...Bullets. For fast-draw target practice for policemen or gun buffs, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. is introducing a wax bullet in a plastic cartridge case that can be fired from .38-cal. and .45-cal. standard revolvers. The bullets use a chemical primer but no powder, are "reasonably accurate" at 25 ft., can inflict no serious damage on innocent bystanders...
...mood evoked when a great critic pauses to contemplate an art treasure. Two pictures that were favorites of the judges happened to be snapped by amateurs. Manhattan's William Froelich, an ex-electronics salesman, produced a design of blazing reds in his The Sellers of Holi Powder at Benares. And Methodist Minister W. George Thornton of Titusville, Pa. put two photographs together to create a Dreamboat gliding out of a mist, as if emerging from another world...
Centuries later, after a religious war, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground in a mortar and spread the powder on the sea. But legends do not die so easily. A Sinhalese prince proclaimed that the tooth had miraculously reassembled itself and miraculously returned to the sanctuary of the Temple of the Tooth. Ever since, it has reposed there, as a symbol of Sinhalese nationalism...