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...code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...
...Professor of Natural History and Director of the Gray Herbarium; Alfred M. Tozzer, '00, John E. Hudson Professor of Archacology and Librarian of the Peabody Museum Library; Theodore Lyman '97, Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory; Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education; and Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian, professor of Plastic Surgery...
Among newly patented inventions [TIME, May 12] you mentioned a plastic, strapless [brassière] as having "distortion point 310°." As an engineering student who is eternally reminded to pay particular heed to units of measurement, your statement leaves me guessing. Was it in angular or temperature units...
...Relax, boys; reference is to temperature and the scale is Fahrenheit. (For nonscientific readers: 1) 310° K = 98.6°F; 2) that is body temperature; 3) a distortion point of 310°K would mean that the plastic cups would lose their shape at body temperature...
...bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida-if they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...