Word: matchboxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the widest are only 6 ft. across-prostitutes peer from hundreds of dark doorways, and hordes of emaciated Chinese line up outside tiny, shuttered shops to buy pinches of heroin (at 5? a pinch), then squat on a corner to inhale it through rolled paper tubes or matchbox funnels. The dingy restaurants serve dog and cat meat supplied by members of Triad, Kowloon's secret society, which also operates the booming gambling, narcotics and prostitution rackets...
Among the middle class, people often worry more about where they live than how. Says London House Agent Roy Brooks: "I have no trouble selling for thousands of pounds matchbox houses in Chelsea and Knightsbridge that cost only hundreds to build. I can get people to spend fabulously for a mean little house because a princess once used the lavatory there. Even sensible businessmen act like superstitious peasants in responding to the magic of a 'good' address...
Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...
Argonne's new facility contains a series of airtight compartments. Each will be equipped with miniature machines and filled with helium to prevent spontaneous combustion. The ingots of plutonium, about the size of a matchbox, will be handled by remote control, or through the 1,576 "glove ports," where the workers put their hands into long rubber gloves fitted to holes in the glass viewing panels...
...characterized by its lack of character. Endless rows of matchbox houses for the time-payment crowd, and for the upper sets, homes that outdo each other in picture windows, angular shininess. Except where, in the cities overflowing with decaying brownstones, in grey-flannelled Suburbia, and in the changeless and countless small towns, beauty is scarce; where there is little demand for it, there is little supply...