Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic frown. "I act like a king-size kid myself," says Soupy, "and talk right to them just like I would a bank president." As pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks of Silver Cup Bread (backed by offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says...
...eventually outdistanced Consumers Research to become the best-known tester of consumer products in the U.S. Paying himself a starting salary of $10 a week, Kallet and five technicians issued monthly Consumer Reports, advised readers how to save money on everything from tooth paste (use precipitated chalk) to fly spray (mix pyrethrum powder and kerosene). By this year 900,000 subscribers were paying $5 a year for the reports, and the Union had 75 part-time shoppers in 50 cities, a headquarters staff of 175, an automobile laboratory in Connecticut, a textile laboratory in Massachusetts...
...Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put in charge of Australian rainmaking more than ten years ago. By careful and skeptical investigation he soon discovered why most efforts had been failures. The commercial rainmakers' favorite method (because it was the cheapest) was to spray silver iodide into the air from ground generators. Dr. Bowen found by actual experiment that ground-generated silver iodide seldom reaches the clouds. He proved further that silver iodide somehow can become inactivated as a rainmaker after less than one hour of exposure to the atmosphere; when it does reach the clouds...
Ominous pink clouds, as deadly as contaminated air, drifted out of war-torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
Outboard Dugout. At a wharf in the Tutong River, a Dayak fisherman, the descendant of generations of headhunters, climbs into his primitive dugout canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters...