Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had actually upset London's locaters, they might have done the trick with tin foil...
...Hunters' Teller. Some new German mines have nonmetallic casings to foil the electrical detectors. Some have chemical rather than metallic fuses. One type has a soft plastic case which raises no hum in the electrical locators. To a probing bayonet, it feels like the surrounding earth. The new ratchet mine has a geared fuse wheel which moves around, a notch at a time, when a wheel goes over it. This mine can be set to go off after any number of vehicles (from one to 29) have passed safely...
...only has he been able to dominate the Camel programs (CBS, 10 p.m., E.W.T.) in his own most explosive and sidesplitting manner-with much credit to an understanding producer (Phil Cohan) and an admiring young foil (Garry Moore). Jimmy has also, after twelve years, made a sensational comeback in nightclub hilarity at Manhattan's Copacabana...
George Burns, the most famous straight man in U.S. radio, observed his 40th anniversary in show business this week with a straight man's true imperturbability. As "the brain" and foil of the comedy team of Burns & Allen (CBS, Tues., 9-9:30 p.m E.W.T.), he was thankful that his old vaudeville routines, neatly brought up to modern times, were worth $10,000 a week as a package show to his sponsor (Swan Soap), and he was delighted with the show's 15,000,000-odd listeners...
...front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply. Tried out by British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's daring Burma raiders last spring, practiced by Chinese infantry and U.S. aviators back in India, air supply worked well in Burma last week. And it gave great promise for future warfare...