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Word: sprayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling at rate of 1 billion cans a year by 1965, says M.I.T.'s Dr. George Fuld, assistant professor of food engineering. Food was contained in but few of the more than 350 million aerosol-type containers sold last year, but food firms are working hard to spray dozens of products (.e.g., pancake mix, barbecue sauce, soda-mix flavoring), hope to surge forward when government approves pressure chemicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...which can spray up to 15 Ibs. of plastic and fiber glass a minute on a mold and cut the cost of laminating plastic boats by as much as 40%, was announced last week by Rand Development Corp. of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Power Afloat | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Alaska swept to the Gulf of Mexico and mixed with warm, moist air there. Such mixing always causes meteorological fireworks. During Jan. 2-3, Florida and Cuba had one of the worst winter storms on record, with 70-mile gusts uprooting palm trees and drenching Havana hotels with salt spray. No sooner had the storm got out of the way than another formed over Texas and moved east. Snow fell in Fort Myers, southern Florida for the first time on record. Florida children were released from school to enjoy the unusual sight. Tourists in Miami shivered in expensive, unheated motels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves on the Job | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

From Thailand to Trinidad, public health workers are counting houses and sending out squads (usually four men), each of which can spray about 10,000 houses a year with guns the size of a large fire extinguisher. In Mexico, 3,500,000 houses have been sprayed. The program is well along in Central America, coastal Ecuador and Peru, Formosa, Swaziland and Ceylon. It is finished in northern Venezuela, several Caribbean islands and parts of Argentina. Soon to feel the fine spray of DDT are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The War on Anopheles | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangers of Sleeplessness | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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