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...newsmen in Bonn last week, they were enough to send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board...
Pocket Radio. RCA demonstrated a tiny (2 in. by 4 in.) radio receiver, in which transistors do the work of vacuum tubes and a pencil flashlight battery supplies the power. Sound volume is great enough to be heard in a good-sized room...
...suggested by Philco: a high-frequency radio receiver powered by two flashlight batteries and no bigger than a pack of cigarettes. Another: a rescue transmitter for lifeboats. Built into boat or raft, it will get all the power it needs from a battery that starts operating as soon as it is dunked in sea water...
...purposely kept unshaven and denied haircuts to the point where I was filthy as a tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators working on me simultaneously, writing largely on matters of military insignificant nature, such...
Leakproof Battery. A flashlight battery which is chemically sealed against leakage of its electrolytic materials was put on the market by Olin Industries, Inc. Sealed by a chemical, the battery does not require thick insulation or an outside metal jacket. Price: 15?, slightly higher than ordinary flashlight batteries...