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Eager Beaver. The Army has long wanted a heavy truck that can splash ashore from landing barges and ford deep streams. Last week it had just the thing, and in quantity. Reo Motors Inc. delivered the last of 5,000 six-wheeled, 2½-ton trucks designed to start, stop and run under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Weapons | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...care. It is "discovered" (often by a noncommercial scientist); it wins a contract with a drug manufacturer, who usually changes its name. It gets an advance buildup in medical and drug trade journals. At last, when ready to meet the public, it is launched on its career with a splash of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Star Is Born | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Some girls shave their legs. Others melt down some candle wax, splash it on, let it cake, and chip if off, Saves blades, they explain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moors Gets A Close Shave As Flesh-Pot Bubbleth Over | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

Slender, brown-haired Jean, 23, had made a respectable splash in music with tours of both Europe and the U.S. In Paris last summer, father, mother & son had a preliminary skirmish with the D Minor Concerto on rented pianos. Later, with father & son off on tours, they practiced separately. Home in Princeton a month ago, they knuckled down on the three pianos in their living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Family Affair | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...saving exuberance and sense of fun about the worst of The Lady, as there is a soaring ease about the best of it. After the naturalistic theater's monotonous verbal drip-drip into a bucket, The Lady's Not for Burning makes a fine bright careless splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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