Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Iowa farm boy, Stan Talbott had a slick way of convincing roadside customers that he sold only freshly laid eggs. Stan would duck into the henhouse where he kept his ready-packaged eggs, push the hens about to make them cackle, and presently reappear with the eggs carefully sprinkled with pillow feathers...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
Nobody claimed that the Geer tube was anywhere near perfect. But when & if perfected, the tube, Geer said, would make it easy to 1) convert existing TV sets to color, and 2) manufacture color television sets for less than the current prices of black & white receivers. The day after all this optimistic talk, Technicolor stock jumped 3¼ points...
...performer to come into the jump skating backwards. The rest of the requirements: a tremendous leap, 2½ body spins, a feather landing, and a smooth blade-cut left in the ice. Few skaters can think of attempting it; this year Button did two in a row, to make it a double-double without the slightest pause, covering 30 ft. in the whole involved maneuver in about two seconds. He was glad when the double-double was over. "Those two jumps tired me more than all of the rest of the time I spent out there," he said...
...Izaak Walton's rules was "to make as little noise as I can when I am fishing," and generations of fishermen have put it down as the kind of common sense that only an idiot would disagree with. Fishermen, it appeared last week, had not taken into account the implacable curiosity of science. In San Francisco, University of Michigan Zoologist Karl Lagler reported a 66-day fishing experiment on a quiet Livingston County, Mich, lake (980 man-hours, 1,561 fish). Every other day a colleague buzzed the experimenters in a noisy outboard, but the racket never hurt...