Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the big business of pulverizing Aachen could not keep American whittling-fingers from gadgeteering. When Army engineers on the ridge outside the town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks that led down to the city, packed like a Christmas stocking with captured shells, bullets, rockets, dynamite, TNT, hand grenades and ack-ack. On its sides G.I.s daubed a picture of Hitler, "Heil Heel," "Aachen Express...
Present use of the tube is limited to Army ordnance and is secret. But its future uses in the metal industries and in medicine are legion. The design includes some 180 sections, to provide constant accelerating steps of 12,000 volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they...
...General Motors (TiME, Aug. 14). The Brothers filed incorporation papers in Lansing, Mich, for two new companies, Fisher Brothers, Inc. and Fisher Motor Car Co. (They had previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans are still nebulous, and formation of the companies at this time is merely to protect the Fisher name...
Boeing's emphasis on design had produced the two most famous heavy bombers in the world. But its future is as foggy as is that of all planemakers. Boeing will miss Phil Johnson's clear foresight...
That explosion virtually swept all possible Grumman competitors into the background. The reasons were simple. While other planemakers argued with the Navy over design changes, Grumman went to Big Bill Knudsen, then froze Grumman designs. Instead of waiting for new plants to be ready, Grumman spread-eagled work in garages, a shooting gallery, almost any available space around Bethpage, even assembled planes under tents. As a result, Grumman proved he could get out planes when the Navy had to have them...