Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right or left of the sighting line. Providing he holds the true line and keeps constant altitude the rest is up to the bombardier. Down the groove flies the Heinkel with its belly bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release button. If he has set his selector for one bomb, only one falls toward the target. If he has set it for salvo-bombing, all drop. Air Corps enlisted men call this "opening the tail gate...
What changes the Germans have added to such fundamental procedure the Germans are keeping to themselves. One possibility is that they have done away with the bomb-release button, use a photoelectric cell built into the sight to drop the bombs when the sight is on the target. Purpose of mechanical dropping is to avoid a lapse sometimes as long as one-fifth of a second between the time a bombardier sights the target and the time his mind has telegraphed the button-pushing impulse to his fingers. Split seconds in the releasing operation make yards of difference...
...heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip the button." Promptly over the Don Lee network went the following...
Though timid cinemaddicts who dislike having boys in the house may be dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both...
...fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...