Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...which says it spent $5,000,000 on color TV last year (and $20 million since 1940), has no intention of letting the steam fizzle out. It has sent its tricolor tube, along with manufacturing instructions, to 177 of the nation's television set and part makers. It is already producing tubes for experimental sets earmarked for selected viewers, expects to be turning them out at the rate of 2,000 a month by midsummer. RCA will soon ask FCC to approve its system. If it does, RCA thinks it can have color receivers on the market nine...
Flat Fixer. The Gates Rubber Co. of Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
Watch him as he arranges the twisted, hanging foot of a lacrosse player for a shot, gently placing the foot, moving the tube to spare the player movement...