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Scientists have long attempted to make air flow visible by means of a substance such as smoke. But smoke does not follow the intricate air-flow patterns exactly. To get more accurate pictures, the General Electric experimenters and others have developed apparatus based on the simple principle of light refraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pictures of the Invisible | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...State Must Be Created. Sikorski was cordial, sensible, farsighted. He said that the underground must be an actual state: "All the apparatus of a state must be created and maintained at all costs, no matter how crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impersonal Adventure | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...some military circles V-2 had been expected to arrive with a formidable warhead of ten to twelve tons. It was rumored that the Nazis, experimenting with this heavy load, had found it so ruinous to the launching apparatus, or to the crews, or both, that they had reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: V-2 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

During the past seven years Edgar Bergen has made himself a national figure largely by talking to himself. He has done this with the aid of an apparatus called Charlie McCarthy, which has become an even more popular national figure, and probably more human to a larger number of people than any inanimate object in world history. It takes only the mildest indulgence in the world of fantasy to be persuaded that Charlie, a fellow of infinite and raucous wit, is actually alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cultivated Groaner | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...programs. Subscribers would pay 5? a day ($18.25 per year) to listen. Nonsubscribers would be kept from listening by a "pig squeal" which would be broadcast along with the programs, "jamming" all sets but those of the Benton subscribers, whose radios would tune out this squeal by a special apparatus. Benton proposes to let other broadcasters use the attachment for a small royalty so he would not have a monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Pig-Squeal Radio | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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