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Home Builder. Plastics were also well represented at the show. Beetle Boat Co., Inc.'s 12½-ft. centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...
...column of the Times, "that . . . man can go no faster than his own trousers. Four times in the past year of hope I have been forced to buy a new pair of braces, and after each occasion the braces have broken irretrievably within three months. I have tried them plastic and I have tried them un-plastic. Can Sir Stafford Cripps, on whom all our hopes are now fixed, tell me what...
Magnifier. A plastic lens which, clamped to small (52 sq. in.) television sets, triples the size of the image went on sale in New York. The name: Walco Tele-vue-lens. The price...
Sales of the red leatherette albums with clear red, unbreakable plastic disks will aid the Band in raising finances for its football trips next season...
...week for Gillette. First, the razor blade company launched a $1,000,000 campaign to plug its new bright blue plastic container for 20 blades (98?). Next day, the board of directors declared an extra dividend of 50? a share, raising 1947 dividends to $2.87½ a share, highest in the company's history. The following day, Gillette's 3,457 employees got an extra week's pay as a bonus for record production...