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...from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions all over again on an electrical voting gadget. Some before-&-after results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mid-Century Audit | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Chain Reaction. Last July 21, said Langmuir, the Albuquerque weather forecast predicted no substantial amounts of rain. But at 5:30 a.m. Project Cirrus' ground generator (a gadget for releasing silver iodide smoke) started a day-long run. About 8:30 a.m. a big cloud formed down wind from the generator. At 9:57, a chain reaction started inside it, filling the cloud with raindrops that showed on a radar screen. Lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and heavy rain fell over a large area. Later thunderstorms near by watered other parts of New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Better Rainmaking | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Krasno gadget is so simple that it will be in production by March. But before testing for potential heart disease can become as routine as testing blood pressure, doctors will have to wait for confirmation of the underlying theory: that the eye is a window to the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ticker & the Flicker | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...assume that all people want the same "high standard of living" and "gadget civilization" that this country does, we will reduce the benefit that backward areas can get from technical and educational improvements under the plan, the British colonial expert added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Expert Urges Care on Point 4 | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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