Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists, with the purest scientific motives in the world, still toy with the idea of a scientifically induced Doomsday. They know the gun is loaded, but their fingers itch to try the trigger. They have a pretty good idea about how to attack this scientifically fascinating problem. Their most powerful cyclotrons and betatrons shoot out particles with energies up to 100,000,000 electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes...
...face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner, a one-way telephone-"outgoing only," a prodigious menu full of such delicacies as filet! mignon and lobster a la Newburg, a daily program of sightseeing, theatergoing, and nightclubbing to be planned...
Trains by Air. First electric trains to be made since 1941 by The Lionel Corp., the nation's biggest toy-train maker, were lifted off the assembly lines. They were flown to retailers. But parents will still have trouble buying them. Lionel will make only one model (retailing at $33.50 with tracks and cars), will be able to ship at most only 50,000 before Christmas (1941 production...
Santa Gets a Raise. Toys will cost more from now on. The OPA granted toy manufacturers a 15% boost in prices, which will be tacked on retail prices...
...school football debut. A rival halfback ran straight over him for a touchdown. By the following year, when he transferred to St. Stanislaus Prep at Bay St. Louis, Miss., he knew how to tackle. On his 14th birthday, he played fulltime for the Stanislaus Rockachaws in New Orleans' Toy Bowl game...