Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than War Office huzzahs of brilliance. Up to the early summer of 1941 he had not learned to handle a large force as ably as he has repeatedly shown that he can handle a small force. When the Italians entered the war in June 1940, General Wavell had a compact little army in the Western Desert. He moved it easily and beautifully, holding off an Italian force ten times the size of his own. Gradually, as the Middle Eastern forces expanded under his feet, he floated out of depth. The bigger the force, equipment and units he had to handle...
What Los Angeles architects hoped could someday be done about all this was shown in models of compact units that included offices, homes and factories, separated by recreational greenbelts; of broad freeway highways with tunneled traffic intersections. Visitors were confronted with mural blowups of ballots, marked with an X in a space labeled "better planning...
About four years ago, 1,000,000-volt machines began appearing in a few great U.S. hospitals on a new, more compact model, weighing about 4,000 pounds, one-quarter of this weight being lead to keep the rays from getting out into the hospitals. Costing some $40,000 apiece, every 1,000,000-volter is the equivalent of $90,000,000 worth of radium.* (Radium is still widely used in therapy because of its compactness: it can even be planted inside a patient and left there for a while to do its work...
Industrial use of 1,000,000-volt machines had to wait until they became compact and light (1,500 lb.) enough to be slung easily from a crane and aimed this way & that upon intricate pieces of machinery. The new giants have two great industrial advantages: 1) they can see through thicker metals, 2) they can do the work of smaller machines in less time...
Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...