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...Private Bert Brennke, of Waterloo, Iowa stepped gingerly along a snow-covered road on the Belgian front, operating a mine detector. He would not let himself be distracted by an odd sound, different from the hum produced in his earphones by the presence of a mine...
...Coconuts emptied of milk and filled with explosive, which the Japs sowed along the route of their retreat in Burma. At first overlooked by detector squads, the coconuts blew the legs off infantrymen, the wheels off vehicles. Allied troops captured a Jap ammunition dump stored with thousands of them...
...Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...
...bombarding molecules to make them give off distinctive rays, he traced chemical changes in the body with great exactness. He followed an individual molecule's course through the body with a ray detector-something like watching the movements of a dyed member of a school of fish. One of his findings: a given water molecule, after drinking, usually stays in the human body about 13 days. For example, in urination, an individual expels not the liquid last drunk but the older accumulations in his body's reservoir...
...back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons, it has solved many an otherwise unsolvable crime. Of 1,551 suspects tested with Leonarde Keeler's famed lie detector, 563 were caught lying and of these 308 promptly confessed...