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...sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow indicator"-a gadget consisting of a wheel which revolves when air escapes from the mouth, a paper which flutters when air is exhaled from the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Stutter? | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...thoroughly committed to its new gadget. Ordnance ordered 17 of the destroyers, to be built by Reo Motor Car Co. at Lansing, Mich., expects them to be ready for test this spring. If they work as well as their designers (Manhattan's Trackless Tank Corp.) and some Ordnancemen think they will, quantity production will be an easy job for the U.S. motor industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Tank Destroyer? | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...case. He couldn't buy any more because its maker, a silversmith, really felt it beneath him to work in copper. There Mr. Marcus planted a seed for the future: to glamorize copper work, he offered a prize to the schoolboy who. could make the best handmade copper gadget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Marcus Polo Returns | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Parade | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Jorge Ubico comes close to being all things to all Guatemalans. He is a radio enthusiast, an amateur photographer, a gadget lover, a motorcyclist, a general in the Army, the official Father of his Country and President of Guatemala. Handsome, ice-eyed President Ubico has proved to his own and most people's satisfaction that he is an able, if high-handed, executive who has halved the national debt, constructed many a road and public building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Third Term | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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