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H.M.S. Urania, a 1,710-ton World War II destroyer, lay at a Liverpool dock, undergoing conversion that would turn her into a fast, light, submarine-killing frigate. Her steel superstructures were being replaced with aluminum and she was being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual...
...Fish-Finder. A fish-finder capable of spotting a single fish 70 feet below the surface was brought out by Ross Laboratories, Seattle. The unit sends out ultrasonic pulsations of 200,000 cycles per second, has a dial on which a neon light shows the depth of echoes bouncing off an object. Echoes from a fish are short and sharp, those off the bottom drawn-out. Price...
...Finder's Rights. Thurgood (short for Thoroughgood) Marshall was born in Baltimore. His father was a country-club steward; his mother is a teacher in the segregated public schools there...
...from in 1911 when Charles Dawson, lawyer and amateur anthropologist, unearthed skull fragments and part of a jaw in a gravel pit near Piltdown in Sussex. The skull was obviously human, but the apeishness of the jaw made some authorities suspicious. Others accepted both as genuine. In honor of Finder Dawson they labeled Piltdown man Eoanthropus (dawn man) dawsoni. To some anthropologists, who often jump to conclusions as quickly as a monkey jumps on a banana, the contrast between the skull and the jaw all but "proved" him to be a link connecting apes...
...Finder. An X-ray machine that shows up tiny insects in stored grain was announced by du Pont. Using the machine, one man can inspect 80 grain samples a day, v. 25 to 50 samples with the old method of cracking open kernels and floating the particles in mineral oil or gasoline. Price: $2,300 for X-ray unit and darkroom equipment...