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Air Pollution Human experimentation in medicine Fiction Identity Fiction Revenge Fiction Science History United States Technology History United States United States History 1945-1953 United States History 1945-1953 Fiction United States History 1945-1953 Juvenile fiction Young adult fictionWalsh, Liam Francis
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WALCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMSummary: DDT Covers US town - streets, rubbish bins, drains, houses and cattle treated with insecticide.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: Ejection seat tests/training for jet aircraft
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: 1950s science footage: tubes of coloring bubbling liquids
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Controlled Explosion of Big Bomb (part 1)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Row of combines in action; American grain harvest.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Summary: Studebaker ad (TV commercial) touting the car's economy and fuel efficiency with "no fuel-eating extra weight
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953
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Summary: Guilty Chimneys: documentary about the environmental effects of air pollution
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: 1955 Chrysler cars
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: New water scooters are tested out. Almost like early jet skis.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: Farnborough jet research center - how jets are made and tested
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: British Industries Fair 1948. Various consumer goods are shown.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Auto safety film (part 2)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Controlled Explosion of Big Bomb (part 3)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: New York to London airspeed record set by Charles Blair
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
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Summary: Guilty Chimneys: documentary about the environmental effects of air pollution
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: “Convertiplane” (early tilt-rotor aircraft)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: Automated mail sorter and synthesized speech machine; technology
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: US Navy’s offshore radar system
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: B-58 Hustler in flight. Enthusiastic VO "This is the JET age!!" etc. Plane in flight and landing
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: REACTOR ON TOW. Large nuclear heat exchanger being towed by a tractor through village. Scary.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Pest Control of Colorado Beetle
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: CU old teletype working (color)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950