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Less than two years after developing its Pyroceram nose cones for guided missiles, Corning Glass Works put on sale in Manhattan department stores the first consumer products of its new heat-resistant glass, which looks like china. The products: a 10-in. skillet and three sizes (1 qt., 1½ qt. and 1¾ qt.) of covered casserole dishes, priced from $5.95 to $12.95. Guaranteed to go from freezer to red-hot burner without cracking, the skillet comes with a removable handle, brass-plated wire cradle and cover so it can be used to serve from at the table...
...drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with fresh fluid about once an hour for 36 hours, using some 60 qt. of fluid...
...rate of exchange has slid to 6,800 bolivianos to the dollar, and local price inflation, though high, has not kept up. Result: anyone paid in dollars can buy beef filets for 11? a lb., rice for 2? a lb., gasoline for 5? a gal., cooking oil 4? a qt. A maid's salary runs from $1.50 to $2.50 a month; an average taxi ride costs 5? -no tip expected...
Though he could no longer go to Germany, McLane found he could still make plenty of money there. To PX snack bars he sold, at 21.5? per qt., 250,000 qts. of chocolate milk monthly, all labeled "minimum butter fat content 2.6%." Independent tests in German laboratories showed it was actually skim milk that cost only 10^ per qt. to produce. Though he was forced to cut his price, McLane held on to orders for other dairy products, meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. As he blandly explained, he got and kept his contracts by bribing purchasing officials. Says...
Engine Cleaner. Shell Oil Co. brought out a new motor oil, which, it claims, will dissolve the deposits formed in engines when antifreeze solutions leak into the oil and make valves stick. Price: 75? a qt...