Word: volt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cool & Dry. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off five room air conditioners, its first in eleven years, priced from $320 to $595. It also demonstrated a new electric dehumidifier that plugs into any 115-volt socket, removes up to 3 gals, of water from 10,000 cubic ft. of air each 24 hours, also doubles as a space heater in cool weather. Price...
...appointments, Stratton (who handles all patronage personally) came up with a 200-volt shock for those who considered him reactionary: he appointed a Negro, Chicago's able Lawyer-Editor Joseph Bibb, as director of public safety, one of the state's most sensitive and important positions. Bibb is the first Negro to occupy a cabinet post in any state since Reconstruction days in the South (TIME, Dec. 29). Said Stratton: "If Bibb makes a success of his job, as I'm convinced he will, it's bound to contribute to better understanding between the races...
Moppet Motorcar. At the American Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Ideal Toy Corp. displayed a motorcar with a Fiberglas body for moppets. The car is 62 in. long, 30 in. wide, is powered by a six-volt battery and has a top speed of 5 m.p.h. Price: around...
...kind of cosmotron (a super-powerful particle accelerator) made possible by a theory recently developed by scientists at Brookhaven (N.Y.) National Laboratory. The new machine's principal part, a doughnut-shaped magnet, will be 600 ft. in diameter, ten times the diameter of Brookhaven's 3 billion-volt cosmotron, the largest now in operation...
...turn into energy as soon as it encounters atoms of normal matter (when a positron hits an electron, they annihilate each other, leaving gamma rays as an X to mark the spot. All such possibilities, says Auger, are on "the frontiers of science." Only the 30 billion-volt cosmotron can test their reality...