Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MURDERS IN VOLUME 2 - Elizabeth Daly - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Henry Gamadge, scholarly detector of fake books, takes on a spot of work for the old New York Vauregards, finds it bloodier by far than printer...
...liberty to give you any details of the methods to be used, but I confidently believe it will not be long now before all the weight and sting has been taken out of the night bombers." Good guessers thought the device was a new detector that would enable pursuit planes to find raiders at night. > In London, Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook had more specific good news. Guardedly he spoke of some new plane models. The Tornado fighter was "most successful." The twin-motored Manchester bomber, the four-motored Stirling bomber - designed to cruise at between...
Ingenious are the methods of the monitoring crews. Often they trace an illegal transmitter to a large office building. They find out which office houses the set by using portable detector outfits, small enough to fit into a vest pocket and equipped with indicators geared to rise with proximity to the transmitter. Most such bootleg equipment is used by gamblers, who are often able, by means of quick flashes, to place last-minute bets on horse races already...
...MOONLIGHT-Helen McCloy - Morrow ($2). Fairly cerebral story of murder at Yorkville University, where Victim Dr. Konradi, an Austrian, had found refuge and money for biochemical research. When suspects refuse a lie-detector test, a psychiatric assistant to the D. A. does his stuff...
...metres. Naturally the energy of each wave is tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio to learn more about the nuclear structure and energy mechanism of atoms. The physicists admired his discovery and Dr. Rabi got a $1,000 prize for the A. A. A. S. convention...