Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities, such adaptable species of wildlife as the white-tailed deer and the meadow lark manage to thrive and multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
...Government, is headed for outer space. The cost of the campaign will be as astronomical as its objective, but the men who lead it consider its success a national necessity. They point out that the earth's atmosphere is an insignificant film, thinner in proportion than the skin of an apple, and that military technology is about to outgrow it, as it outgrew the earth's surface two world wars ago. Navigation of the air-film is no longer enough. No nation will be safe unless it can also navigate the vacuum that hangs overhead...
...best all-purpose insect repellent so far developed," in the words of the Department of Agriculture, will soon be released for commercial sale. Army volunteers found that the odorless fluid-a new diethyl toluamide compound-when rubbed on the skin offered protection against mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, fleas, and biting flies...
...visitor is to be in Paris only a short time, she is stripped to her bra and girdle (preferably to her skin, but some are bashful). Measurements are taken in every conceivable direction, with especial attention to the size and disposition of the bosom, and a form is made to her shape. At Maison Dior, stuffed dummies are piled tidily atop closets in ghostly and lumpy array, all carefully anonymous but numbered...
Solid Gold Skyscraper. Reynolds Metal Co. is supplying gold-colored aluminum to brighten the facade of a 34-story office building now rising in Manhattan. Reynolds produced the color by an electrolytic process which covers aluminum with a gold-impregnated hard aluminum-oxide skin...