Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera equipment in the PXs; some went about festooned with three cameras. So avid was the search for souvenirs that the airplane pilots would kid them: "Just tell us the next time you guys are going to buy another 2,000 Ibs. of stuff so we can get lighter by feathering the props...
...Englishman could like the ancients' sweet, flat brews. Actually, the first true dry beer came to the U.S. with immigrant Germans in the 1840s. In German fermentation tanks the yeast worked at the bottom of the brew rather than at the top, as in ale, thus producing the lighter, less alcoholic "lager," i.e., "stored" beer, that has become the U.S. favorite...
Electric Comforter. The first electric comforter was put on sale by the Julee Comforter Manufacturing Corp. of New York City. Similar to an electric blanket, Electropuff is lighter than most ordinary comforters and is mothproof. Price: $24.95 for twin-bed, $29.95 for double-bed size...
...detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens of thousands of other U.N. soldiers into combat in Korea...
...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...