Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico Erhard discussed building a new steel mill for his hosts in Durango; newspapers reported that Alfred Krupp was on his way to the country to confer about new industrial plants. In Peru, Erhard helped inaugurate a new steel tubing mill equipped with German machinery. In Brazil, where a German steel tube plant is going up in Minas Gerais and a Volkswagen assembly plant is to be started in June, a $142 million trade treaty with Bonn provides that $50 million of German goods will be used this year in Brazilian undertakings...
...each child entered the room, Dr. Salk's secretary handed him a test tube bearing the youngster's name and control numbers. Time and again, in answer to an anxious "Wotta they gonna do?" she explained the procedure softly and reassuringly. Working in twos, nurses slipped a needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood...
...Learn. A series of educational hobby kits for children was announced by "Industrial America, Inc." of Chicago. Each kit contains materials for assembling models or performing experiments, and was designed by a topflight institution or manufacturer in that field. R.C.A. designed an Electronics Kit, including parts for a two-tube radio and a working miniature transmitter. Other kits deal with geology, weather forecasting, optics. Prices...
...lagging behind. They have used up most of their gimmicks, some three and four times. Starting with a stereotyped family situation (a harried father, plagued by his precocious children, his inlaws, and his television), the action moves through several disconnected crises. Father kicks the TV set in the tube three times, argues with his wife, and discovers that his offspring talk knowingly about premarital relations. When these gags falter, there are always the in-laws to lampoon, not to mention a dumb blonde, included just to make sure no comical opportunities are missed...
...Billy Graham's team of advance men went to work on London with the same methods that they used in Los Angeles, Boston and Albuquerque They plastered the sides of 600 buse with posters and rented 150 billboards 3,000 units of smaller outdoor advertising and 1,500 tube-station posters. They passed out 20,000 car stickers, organized 1,000 volunteer ushers to work on 200 man shifts in huge (11,000 seats) Harringay Arena. About 5,000 home prayer meetings a week were held to pray for the success of the crusade, and 2,700 "counselors" were...