Word: filterable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobe talked himself into the radio business on a shoestring after the last war, made $68,000 in 1927 on condensers. But that year an engineer showed him how a filter would eliminate static—and since then Tobe hasn't been interested in anything else. "Everybody was making condensers, but nobody was suppressing noises. That was a real service—and I figure you have no right to be in business and make a profit unless you offer a service...
...Then," says Tobe—who looks like a small version of Jimmy Durante, with milder features but just as frenzied a manner—"blood money came along." Tanks, jeeps, etc., with two-way radios had to have noise filters, and the ones available elsewhere were bulky and expensive. Tobe barged into the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ. early in 1940 to try for some business. More to get rid of him than anything else, the Major in charge gave him the toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered...
Charles F. Brooks, to prepare for publication a third volume entitled "Climate and Weather of Puerto Rice and the Virgin Islands," and to publish a monograph entitled "Filter Measurements of Solar Radiation at Blue Hill Observatory...
...When they attack," radioed Jacoby, "they occasionally set off firecrackers and even beat drums to kick up a rumpus. They are clever in taking advantage of terrain and are eternally busy trying to filter into the U.S. positions. Sometimes their snipers work their way through. They show a marked preference for U.S. officers...
Despite examples of futility, many women managed to do worthwhile jobs without noise, and even without uniforms. Buried away in secret offices in cities along the seacoasts were the women of the Information & Filter Centers, listening to telephoned reports of aircraft, marking every plane's flight on maps. Their hours were long, their jobs dull, but some day they might be vital to air-raid defense. Some of them were Junior Leaguers, but the majority were stenographers, teachers, young housewives. Boss of these unpaid workers, who slaved without uniforms or froufrou, was the Army...