Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...products are concerned, there will be no such radical changes. Said RCA Victor: "In our opinion, nothing now contemplated in the laboratories or in use commercially at present shows any signs of offering such flexibility, tonal fidelity and simplicity, at low cost, as do the conventional disc and phonograph...
...position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...
This was Saipan, as recorded by Lieut. Loyal ("Larry") B. Hays and Technical Sergeant Keene Hepburn of the U.S. Marines. After 13 days there, they were back in the U.S. last week, editing 15 to 20 hours of the best portable wire and disc recordings of battle action made during World War II. They put home-fronters (CBS, We, the People) just about as close to the battle as they could get without participating...
...careful study of plowing v. other cultivation methods was made on Iowa experimental farms by U.S. and State soil experts. The new methods were disc harrowing (advocated by Faulkner), "lister-ing" and "subsoiling"-all of which loosen the soil without turning it over. The object is to leave on the surface a stubble "beard," both to check erosion and provide decaying organic matter as fertilizer. In the Iowa test these methods: > Produced bigger soybean crops than plowing, slightly smaller corn crops.† > Saved one-third to half of the man and machine power required by plowing. > Reduced soil erosion from...
...trick uses the standard platter-like German Teller mine. The thick disc, with almost 12 lb. of TNT, is buried extra deep in roads which rut quickly. The first few trucks roll over without disturbing the round, flat trigger called "the spider." When the rut deepens, usually after the road is considered safe, the next truck sets off the mine...