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Three to One. In production Douglas estimates that the Hot-Rods can be built three times as fast for half the cost of their gadget-heavy sisters. Says Heinemann: "That increases this nation's potential by just that much-there are simply a lot fewer man-hours and a lot less material going into each A4D." The Navy is so impressed that it has already ordered Douglas' new bomber into production though its first flight is still weeks away...
...gadget has advantages over the old: instead of a handful of eavesdroppers, millions can listen: instead of guarded talk, the callers have unlimited misplaced confidence in their privacy...
...years' time, the gadget-laden U.S. householder will be able to do almost everything but change the baby with the flick of a switch. So predicted General Electric's Vice President W. V. O'Brien last week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only...
Until last fall, Spokane's official air-raid siren was a 10? plastic gadget hanging on a hook in the police radio room. The idea was to broadcast its thin wail to the squad cars, which in turn would sound their sirens. Since then, Spokane has acquired three new Chrysler airhorns...
Like most Americans, Engineer Hans Goldschmidt knew that one of the quickest ways to make a fortune is to invent a new gadget or machine. Unlike most Americans, who never get beyond the daydreaming stage, Goldschmidt made his daydream come true. His invention: a home power tool that could be used as a lathe, vertical and horizontal drill, sander, saw-and do almost anything else needed for woodworking. Last week Goldschmidt's streamlined new model of the "Shop-smith," the do-it-yourself boom's most versatile power tool, went on display at a do-it-yourself exhibition...