Word: gadget
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Subscription Radio (subscribers pay 5? a day to rent a gadget for their radios; with it, they can tune in a station which carries no commercials; without it, anyone tuning the same frequency hears only a "pig squeal"). FCC has not made up its mind whether this is "technically feasible" now; meanwhile, no frequencies...
Most of these changes will not take effect until the war is over, and manufacture of civilian radio and television equipment can be resumed. FCC wanted manufacturers, station owners and gadget buyers to know well in advance where they stand, so they can plan accordingly. The Commission will listen to objections to its air-rationing plan, beginning on St. Valentine...
...curious new chemical last week achieved something of a vogue as a social toy in Manhattan. Gadget-loving hosts introduced it at family gatherings; the Manhattan press ran feature stories; the New Yorker took notice. This entertaining material is a kind of putty which can be pulled and kneaded like taffy but has a surprising, unputty-like property-when rolled into a ball and dropped on a hard surface, it bounces...
...Assured a group of Polish-American voters that he believes "Poland must be reconstituted as a great nation." The delegation stayed 55 minutes at the White House, stood around the gadget-cluttered desk to get a discourse on geography from the President...
...ingenious aerial-delivery gadget was announced by the Air Technical Service Command last week. It is a rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...