Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slip me a spare match, sister?" inquired one tweed-beaten young man at the corner. Portia didn't smoke; and moved on in injured innocence...
...rain that fell a few hours earlier had washed away the fog, and now visibility was good, and the skies were smeared with only a slight overcast. The first plane, Alpha, was skyborne; next came Bravo, and it poured down the runway, lifted up, trailing four black swirls of smoke. The third tanker, Cocoa, rolled into take-off position and got ready to follow...
...since 1951, topped $400 million last year, are heading for $500 million in 1958. Every day almost 10 million U.S. men use aerosol shaving creams, and more than 10 million women put on aerosol hair sprays. The 250 different aerosol products on the market can stop runs in hosiery, smoke bees out of hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair, which can inflate...
...Blastoff, to design him a moon rocket with plushy upholstery, an anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd, Bass Baritone Donald Gramm, Sopranos Adelaide Bishop and Lorena Spence), the opera worked its way to the moon and back, picking up a Purple People Eater as it went along...
...seconds, the giant rocket engines quaked and thundered on the stands some 15 miles northeast of Sacramento, Calif., spewing smoke, steam and mud over the revetments. Suddenly the test director shut off the liquid fuel that had produced an awesome 300,000 lbs. of total thrust from the two biggest rocket engines ever developed in the U.S., the main unit for the 5,500-mile Titan ICBM. "O.K.," said the director to a visitor, in the silence that followed. "Now you can go over and see the solid-propellant guys...