Word: detector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technology. In Ann Arbor, Mich., the city did a thorough job of resurfacing streets, later had to dispatch an expert with a mine detector to locate the manholes...
...brunette with a jealous husband got the Dade County, Fla. sheriff's office to give her a lie detector test, went home with a letter certifying that she had been a faithful wife...
...government man with the small box slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
Philadelphia's El-Tronics Inc. took no chances. In magazine ads it bragged: "At last, an inexpensive Geiger-Miiller counter set [a radioactivity detector] for only...
...millions had accepted the President's program, at least momentarily, and some took to it as if they expected to submit to lie-detector tests twice a week. In Dallas, greying Mrs. Anna Myers patriotically quit feeding bread crumbs to an assortment of bluebirds who haunt her backyard. But the bluebirds turned up their beaks at birdseed and only pecked at the crumbled corn muffins she offered them later in the week. Most housewives were taking things easier, and the majority were complying in part-like Mrs. Eleanor Sorenson of Indianapolis, who decided to observe meatless Tuesday...