Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such mechanical extravagance became particularly popular in Germany. A gilded brass Krippe was presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls by centrifugal force...
...Motorola President Robert Calvin afraid of losing the U.S. lead in electronics. "The foreign competitor who has finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
...experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period. Keep the research going and those other fellows will copy." In General Telephone & Electronics' future: electro-luminescent wall panels, a single telephone-radio-TV communications system for the home, machines that translate foreign languages...
...only are workingmen acquiring the benefits of capitalism; some are becoming capitalists themselves. To the dismay of Marxists, people are indeed taking over the means of production-by buying shares in their burgeoning industries. Wall Street's bull