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...housewife who feels like the Sorcerer's Apprentice every time she mops the floor, there is SiphO Products' Aqua-Vac-an automatic, nonelectric floor washer and dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...vinyl clams, made by J. A. Hagen & Co. after nature's model, in two handy sizes, Big Squirt and Little Squirt, designed to make any shrimp whistle with glee. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Last Sight. At 6:20 one morning early this month, a Piper P18 duster plane with Félix at the stick rose over Santa Clara and headed into bucking head winds for the Florida Keys. Rafael, shivering in his thin vinyl jacket, was precariously perched half out of the narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Man on the Raft | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Budget Swimming Pool. An in-the-ground, 12-ft. by 24-ft. swimming pool with wooden side panels lined with heavy vinyl will soon be sold by Cascade Pools Corp., Edison, N.J. The price for a 5-ft.-deep, install-it-yourself model, including water-filtering system and pool ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goods & Services: New Ideas | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...elevator car, even the Muzak was silent as conservative Art Editor Alexander Eliot flicked his beard thoughtfully and pronounced: "The lack of horizontal accents on the outside makes for an intensely dramatic but unassuring effect-like an exclamation point." Up in the new quarters, corridors with vinyl floors, offices with deep-pile carpeting suggested the passageways and staterooms of a transatlantic liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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