Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party members in the union. This is a big fraction and more than is necessary in our industry, if you wish to call it that. I think about 100 or so would be sufficient to work within the union; and so we have sent our party members into the apparatus of our party everywhere. . . . You fall over teachers everywhere...
Other curves have been discovered which will do what Sleeper's will, but the value of the latter lies in its simplicity of construction and equation. Upon this simple curve, Sleeper has been able to design an instrument which will automatically trisect any given angle. The apparatus is a simple two-piece device which, when placed correctly over the angle, shows where the lines of trisection are to be drawn...
...consistently recognized the fact that a free press inevitably makes mistakes and even unwarranted criticisms. Army's press section has grown from four officers, ten clerks to 18 officers, 40 clerks since Aug. 1. Of Marshall's stamp are others in Army's publicity apparatus (now being reorganized)-Major General Robert Richardson of the Cavalry; Lieut. Colonel Ward Maris of Field Artillery, no newsman but a discerning publicist of small patience with bureaucrats; Major Art Ennis of the Air Corps; Lieut. Colonel Ginsburgh, liaison officer between Under Secretary of War Patterson and the public, graduate of Harvard...
...former Germans went names, duties, pay, addresses, backgrounds of virtually every Panama Canal employe; of men who work on the Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...