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Better World. In Washington, D.C., the Fish and Wildlife Service prepared to try out the angler's dream gadget-a radar device expected to: 1) find schools of fish; 2) report on their sizes; 3) tell where they are going...
...fighting ability of the U.S. Marines is never questioned. But sometimes soldiers and sailors are irked by the signs of conscious superiority inherent in every Marine. In Gismo (meaning "gadget"), a publication for all servicemen in the South Pacific, this pent-up irritation was let out in doggerel "believed to be by a sailor...
Last fortnight two of the most combustible personalities in Cinema, airminded Multimillionaire Howard (The Outlaw) Hughes (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) and gadget-brained Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges (TIME, Feb. 14), announced their cinemanschluss. A new studio was born. Hollywood braced itself for the sort of thing that happens when hydrogen and a match flame meet...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
...such reasons new jobs were thrown Charlie Wilson's way. G.E. expanded into the appliance business. Soon the engineering, production and salesmanship of ironers, washers, heaters, radios and every newfangled gadget was in the hands of Charlie Wilson. The Wilson home became a showplace of Bridgeport: it even boasted an electric garbage disposer...