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...another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body. It is designed to reach 2,250 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High-Speed Research | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...supermarkets in Philadelphia installed DiGiTab, a fingerprinting device. If the cashier is suspicious of a check, he asks the customer To leave a fingerprint which is then attached to the check. DiGiTab's machine takes the print in a few seconds with a colorless, odorless, stainless ink. Where installed DiGiTab has frightened forgers away. In the past five months, Milwaukee's Krambo Stores cashed 108,000 good checks totaling more than $5,000,000. It did get stuck for $250 worth, all cashed by the same forger, but DiGiTab helped nab him. Rental fee: $100 a year

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak. One such buried pump has been running steadily at full load for 13,000 hours (1½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Wrinkles | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...enough for Helena Rubinstein. Last week, in Roslyn, N.Y., she opened a new $4,000,000 plant to put her beauty business on an assembly-line basis and triple her production. Made mostly of glass, it has dustproof floors, a sealed, odorproof room for testing perfumes, huge, stainless-steel mixing vats to churn up tons of cream and cologne, and machines to fill 1,000,000 bottles and jars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Beauty's Handmaiden | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Dishwashers & Antiques. Reconstruc tion of the 54-room presidential mansion has wiped away the rats, the cockroaches, the sagging floors, the drafts and faulty plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The President's Lady | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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