Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wires & Wax. The cheating was an old story. In the cheaper shops where the ignorant or the unwary traded, callous butchers were caught using a variety of methods. Some merely weighed their thumbs with the meat. Some attached a wire from the scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller...
...Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent to Jay Gould for $30,000, the last stick of sealing wax he had been gnawing from when he quit was still reposing on the table behind the sounder...
Viewers now snap up everything he offers. The peculiar luminosity of his technique, which involves mixing the colors with wax and applying them cold with a palette knife, contributes to Florsheim's recent rise. So does his increasing ability to suggest deep spaces and complex forms without defining them. More important is the fact that his pictures bring over into the world of art a once dim and obscure night world, newly sparkling...
...offers its usual paradoxes. There is no faintest clue as to how most of the commonest forms can be prevented; yet in those cases where trigger mechanisms have been spotted, preventive measures have been more effective than against any other disease. Scrotum cancer of U.S. oil workers, from a wax-pressing process, has been wiped out (as was chimney sweeps' cancer) by keeping the dangerous chemical at a distance. So has bladder cancer in the dye industry. Circumcision and scrupulous cleanliness markedly reduce a man's risk of cancer of the penis, and possibly his wife...
Frozen Box. A one-piece package for frozen foods has been developed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Replacing the cumbersome double package (wax covering over cardboard) now used to avoid odor mixture and freezer burn, the new package does both jobs with a single wax cardboard, which can be sealed with a cold adhesive...