Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choo-gied" mortar ammunition up one hill, then caught a bullet in his chest as he was starting back down the trail for more. He lay by the mortar position, blood leaking from his chest, and passed shells to the shorthanded mortar crew as he died. Each time the tube fired, the old man muttered a Korean word, but the Americans on the mortar never knew what...
...Princeton laboratory Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, R.C.A.'s great electronics inventor, who pioneered the TV tube, worried about this phenomenon. What U.S. driving needs, he concluded, is some masterful device to take it away from the drivers. After years of work, Dr. Zworykin announced last week that he had designed an electronic system to do just that...
...Which gets its quick-lifting power from the U-shaped bands which function on the principle of the Venturi tube, i.e., the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower the pressure drops within the tube. On the plane, the lowered pressure causes a suction, even at low speeds, within the channel's, maintaining the flow of air and preserving lift under conditions that would stall an ordinary plane...
...Clarence J. Gamble of Milton, Mass, was testing 70 commercial contraceptive jellies and creams when he remembered that common salt was reputed to be a good sperm-killer. Dr. Gamble tried it in the test tube and it worked. He combined it with several jellies and it still worked. Finally he hit upon rice flour as a cheap base material, widely available...
...concentrated foods that will feed four people for a day was put on sale by Bernard Food Industries, Inc., Chicago. A 9-lb. pack, when mixed with water, expands into 25 Ibs. of food (griddlecakes, soup, stew, biscuits, etc.), plus salt shaker, cup, pot cleaners and a first-aid tube with a medicant that can be used for everything from insect bites to shaving cream. Price...