Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greaseless protective'skin cream, Covicone, that will not wash off. The cream has a nitrocellulose base, does not clog pores and permits perspiration. When applied twice daily for two weeks, an application every one or two days thereafter maintains the protection. Price: 90? for a 1-oz. tube...
Sinking Fund. In Pasadena, Calif., Horse Player Johnny Bowler had $14,690 in his wallet when arrested for stealing a 71? tube of toothpaste...
When no hostile airplanes are about, the gun squats quietly waiting, its 75-mm. tube projecting out of a mass of electronic equipment. On top, a small, dish-shaped radar antenna peers around, scanning the hemisphere of sky. It can see 15 miles through clouds or darkness...
...human sight, it has spotted an enemy jet diving down from the edge of space at close to the speed of sound. It stares intently for a second or so; then with a roar of gears and motors, the gun springs to life. While its carriage whirls and its tube swings upward, the radar still stares at the target. It acts uncannily like a hunter who squats in his blind and watches the sky for ducks. When he glimpses one over his shoulder, he springs to his feet and trains his gun. The Skysweeper sees better than any human hunter...
...There is more to scientific research than the advertisements' picture of a little man in a white coat swinging a test tube," stated Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, at last night's conference on Scholarship and Research...