Word: greaseless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanishing Cream. For workers whose skins are sensitive to industrial materials and housewives who are allergic to soaps or detergents, Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill. brought out a greaseless protective'skin cream, Covicone, that will not wash off. The cream has a nitrocellulose base, does not clog pores and permits perspiration. When applied twice daily for two weeks, an application every one or two days thereafter maintains the protection. Price: 90? for a 1-oz. tube...
Torpedo on the Track. Savings in fuel and grease meant bonuses, and engineers were constantly chancing runs on nearly greaseless bearings. Keeping the creaky engines in trim meant long hours of extra work for the drivers, but a breakdown was never blamed on faulty equipment. It was always labeled negligence or sabotage. Fearful of punishment and goaded by high wages (up to 1,250 forints-about $100-a month), the engineers did what they could, but accidents were frequent, timetables seldom kept. Engineers who complained, disappeared...