Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, President Harry Truman pulled out a sheet of his pale green personal stationery and penned a personal letter. A little later, a White House functionary brought in the antiquated equipment necessary for affixing the Presidential Seal. He lit a stick of red sealing wax, allowed some to drip on the envelope and quickly pressed it with a heavy, wrenchlike instrument...
...last week, Sabrina was on the move again. During the night, Students (presumably from the class of '51) had sneaked into the museum, opened the doors with keys made from wax impressions from the curator's key ring, cut Sabrina loose with an acetylene torch, and lugged her out into the darkness...
Duisberg's catalogue includes dozens of other products of desert plants-liquid wax, carbon paper, steroids, burlap, even fire sticks for Boy Scouts. But New Mexico A. & M. has decided that Duisberg's work, despite possible future rewards, is "too fundamental," and is dropping the project. Chemist Duisberg, however, is not worried about having to shut up shop. With an eye to the thirsty future, half a dozen other colleges are.already clamoring for his services...
General MacArthur's "Old soldiers never die" lifted the tape on the wildest scramble the U.S. recording business has seen in years. Winner in the first lap was Columbia, which enlisted Gene Autry to put the old song on wax...
...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...