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...Hooked up to this same hand generator is another new signaling device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
...said in a hollow voice. "I see you sitting alone at a table at the Walnut Cafe. You are bald but except for that you haven't changed much." (My hair is getting thin, but I try to ignore it. Shad is so blunt.) "Strapped to the top of your bald head, you have a small microwave radio receiving and transmitting set. You radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with...
...left, swearing never to trust a crystal ball again. They quit on you at the crucial moment. Television will be much better. But I'm going down to the Walnut Cafe tonight to see if I can find that Blonde. No sense in waiting till 1948. Besides I might get along better with her now, while I still have a full head of hair...
That first sleeping car consumed 15 years of George Pullman's life and $20,000 of the money he had made in Chicago construction. He called it "Pioneer," lined it with black walnut inside, painted it a heavy mahogany with gold trimmings outside. It contained a washroom at each end, two compartments, and four sections of seats to be made up into berths...
...acute shortage of coffins. Some said the supply would last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost 35% of its employes). Unless WPB soon eases its restrictions, most undertakers will have to go back...