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Last week Mayor Moore was on the warpath again. To protest making Electra a whistle stop for express trains, he had thousands of plastic whistles molded in the shape of locomotives. He made a trip to the state capital at Austin, passed them out to the governor, the legislature (legislators cheered him admiringly and blew their whistles in chorus) and everybody else he met. Then he demanded a special hearing by the Texas Railroad Commission...
...than 240 reports in the" U.S. and 30 in foreign parts. About 30% of the "unidentified aerial phenomena," it decided, were due to astronomical objects, such as meteors, bright stars or planets. Other flying discs turned out to be weather balloons, some of them carrying lights, or the big plastic balloons that scientists send up to study cosmic rays. Some of the mysterious lights were probably reflections on an airplane's windshield...
...practical jokers. A woman in Seattle reported excitedly that a flaming disc had landed on her roof. When examined by federal agents and Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
...point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples of academic excellence (including a pair of female nudes by Raymond Puccinelli and Oldtimer William Zorach, both entitled Invocation) look even, finer than they really were...
...company has already put out an Aer-a-sol dispenser to spray a protective plastic coating on metal, leather and other shiny surfaces ($2.95 for the 12-oz. size); another releases a phfft! of chemicals to eliminate household odors ($1.89 for the 12-oz. size). This summer Bridgeport will have a bomb loaded with suntan lotion, and before long, one loaded with paint for touching up around the house. Also in the works are gadgets which might some day become landmarks of 20th Century civilization: spray bombs for perfume, hair lacquer and under-arm deodorants...