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...combines this sort of fantasy with technical accuracy. For a forthcoming show set in a think tank, Geller sent two writers to make a study of the Rand Corp.'s offices, then reproduced it right down to the paper shredder in the basement. Yes, Phelps ends up crawling through chutes leading to the shredder. With a budget of $185,000 a show, M:I has no trouble coming up with an astonishing array of the latest devices of nuclear-age espionage. Says Staff Writer William Read Woodfield: "We like to think that the CIA is awake and watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Mission Possible | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...PAPER SHREDDER. A new office paper shredder not much bigger than a typewriter comes from Michael Lith Sales Corp. of Manhattan. The Destroyit Super-Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples. It can handle sheets as wide as a newspaper, produces shreds in three widths-depending on the model-which it neatly spews into disposable plastic bags. For businesses where disposal of confidential or secret material is essential, Destroyit does the job on the spot. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Build Small | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...School's Laundry announces its new method of doing shirts. Boiled down, the system is just this: Shirts are first dunked very quickly into a weak solution of water and soap. Then said shirts are run through a shredder which makes the fabric more comfortable for summer wear by virtue of the long gashes made all over the body of the shirt. Then various solutions of chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

...paper has always been more expensive than wood pulp paper. Wallboard may also be made from the stalks. His problem, and he is succeeding in it, has been to get dubious corn paper and wallboard makers to produce on a large scale and thus cheaply, to put harvester-husker-shredder-baler machines to clear farms, to persuade railroads to carry the stalks to the paper mills cheaply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Corn Paper | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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