Word: flashlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products' train for three-to six-year-olds. It consists of a string of wooden cars, driven by three flashlight batteries, that go forward and back around an oval of fiber on which is printed an electric circuit. Price...
...beaned a lieutenant with a flashlight...
...when its roof had been set in place nearly 5,000 years ago. Next day the chiseling continued while El Malakh and a group of colleagues waited impatiently. At last the hole was big enough for him to peek inside. In the excitement he forgot to bring a flashlight, so he used a mirror (as the ancient Egyptians probably did) to shoot sunlight into the darkness...
...newsmen in Bonn last week, they were enough to send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board...
Pocket Radio. RCA demonstrated a tiny (2 in. by 4 in.) radio receiver, in which transistors do the work of vacuum tubes and a pencil flashlight battery supplies the power. Sound volume is great enough to be heard in a good-sized room...