

(
click ads, via) Even more disconcerting than that other 50s ad theme—
Floating HeadVertising—was this Brobdingnagian hands art direction motif. (
L) Douglas engineers, frustrated by power lost via airplane exhaust, enlarged themselves with an embiggening ray so that they could then give their DC-7s little pushes across America. (
R) A 1,000-foot tall Union Carbide scientist, excited about new business opportunities in India, gave locals a little test tube taste of "things to come"—
20,000 dead Indians.