Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert is 32-year-old Sir Nelson King Johnson of the air Ministry. He and his staff were consutled for every Commando raid and for the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sir Nelson believes weather secrets are hidden in the upper air, uses a special balloon apparatus for readings up to 50,000 feet...
...Condition of Man is Volume III of this massive project. Volumes I & II: Technics and Civilization, a history of man as a user of tools, machines and apparatus (TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence...
...advanced electronics was made by the War Service Information Office last night. Those qualifying for the program will be assigned to the Navy Radio School in Chicago as Seamen. First Class, and will be given a course on the theory and operation of submarine detection and radio finder apparatus, communication equipment, and other electronic devices...
...London the U.S. delegates will meet with those of Great Britain and the refugee governments. They will discuss methods of helping devastated countries to restock books and scientific apparatus; how to give U.S. university training to selected students from those countries. They will also consider forming "as soon as practicable, a United Nations organization for educational and cultural reconstruction...
Empty Heads. The new methods were parented by a four-year-old Boston research firm headed by a lanky, sharp-chinned, young M.I.T. graduate, Richard Morse. His researchers call themselves "specialists in nothing." They were not the first to work in their rarefied field, for high-vacuum apparatus is an old tool in the laboratory and in small-scale manufacturing. But Morse's National Research Corp. developed machinery which for the first time makes it possible to use a high vacuum in large-scale mass production...