#6 I guarantee you that Crest toothpaste boxes did not show grams in 1955. From the examples I've seen online, they didn't even show ounces. But grams is definitely a post let's-get-America-on-the-metric-system era thing.
#18 Completely wrong, again. It was never banned. Pulled from the market because of the $50 price. Fewer than 5000 sold. And that business about finding uranium deposits? The kit contained a booklet published jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States Geological Survey.
#6 I guarantee you that Crest toothpaste boxes did not show grams in 1955. From the examples I've seen online, they didn't even show ounces. But grams is definitely a post let's-get-America-on-the-metric-system era thing.
#18 Completely wrong, again. It was never banned. Pulled from the market because of the $50 price. Fewer than 5000 sold. And that business about finding uranium deposits? The kit contained a booklet published jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States Geological Survey.
That's exactly as high as my tuition fee!
No way.
Touch-tone dialing pushbutton keypad wasn't introduced until 1963.
I have a button-phone that uses pulses to dial, so there's that.
Completely wrong, again.
It was never banned. Pulled from the market because of the $50 price. Fewer than 5000 sold.
And that business about finding uranium deposits? The kit contained a booklet published jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States Geological Survey.