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...Helena. We had kindled several targets, which were burning in the night like small, innocent bonfires along the Kolombangara coast. One hour after the firing started there were no Jap targets left. It was then that we picked up, in the beam of a searchlight, a ship's bow protruding from the quiet sea. The admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam, and the admiral kept asking: "Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge." Finally came the destroyer's voice: "I am sorry...
...Hooked up to this same hand generator is another new signaling device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
...looks your way and turns on her transmitter. She has lovely eyes. By this time she is putting out so many watts that your antenna is getting a sun tan. She wants you to come over and sit with her. You get up and come in on the beam...
...came dispatch orders for his chief Pay Clerk with the four hash marks to be detached immediately... But after all, his specimens were still there. Net two cans came up two points abaft the beam, both of which wanted two certified money lists taken care of ... While he was delving into his specimens ... Along came a detachment of marines who hadn't been paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed...
...thin slabs, usually no bigger or thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...