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...still a live political issue. Politician Harry Truman had recognized the potential magic of a gadget that promised something for everybody. He was also cagily capitalizing on the farmers' new worry. In the past two years, farm income-despite high prices and high supports-had bounced downward about 20%. This was mostly a natural decline from artificial alltime price highs in wartime, but, citing the price drops in a direful voice, the President implied that it wouldn't happen again-provided the farmers voted for the Brannan Plan and, incidentally, the Democrats...
McDonald has FCC permission to make a three-month test in Chicago this fall of Phonevision (TIME, May 1). His gadget, inexpensively hooked onto a TV set, would enable the home viewer to order movies by telephone, at $1 each, for his living-room screen. The fee, charged on the monthly phone bill, would be split among the movie producer, the TV station and the phone company...
...gadget" really works, as can be substantiated by incontrovertible evidence...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
Additional equipment will allow George to make the actual touchdown. One gadget, for use with ILS, is a sensitive altimeter that tells George when the airplane is close to the ground. Then George flattens the approach angle so that the touchdown will be gentle. With the GCA system, a special short-range radar does much the same thing, guiding the plane with extra precision just before it hits the runway...