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...most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching on nearly every chemical compound that can be put into a test tube. They heard about hydrazine and dithiooximide and triacetyl-aldehyde-L-erythrose. The learned speakers told how to keep plastic shower curtains from smelling bad and how to keep cattle from getting arthritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Don't Be a Dodo | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Though many a Gloomy Gus predicted that plastics would glut the market when scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain that they are clammy and uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLASTICS: Worms, Beware | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Then he took a shower and put on a pair of two-toned blue pajamas. He left the shower running. Carefully, he spread out three bath towels on the bathroom floor and lay down on them. Gripping the same .32 automatic with which he had shot Joseph Watkins, he put a bullet through his head, just forward of his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Crazy Thing at Princeton | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Greensboro, his egg-spattered car was greeted with another shower of eggs and tomatoes. Some struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Am I in America? | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...powdered and behatted, she briskly interrupted Chairman Sam Rayburn's introduction of Barkley, took over the microphone. On behalf of the Allied Florists of Philadelphia, she announced, she wanted to present President Truman with a large Liberty Bell made of flowers. Then, from beneath the bell came a shower of white pigeons (placed there by the florists' pressagent, who had billed them as "doves of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Emma & the Birds | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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