Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pound or Pour? Sample military gadget is a machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...
Carpentered by NBC scripters from the official warden's handbook, last week's program was produced with elaborate stage sets in NBC's glare-lit, gadget-hedged television studios. It took a typical warden in & out of brownstones and apartment houses, into a blacked-out street ("Get off the streets, Miss. ... If you can get home in five minutes, do so.") It was repeated six times a day for three days. From the number of pupils in attendance, police figured that in six weeks 54,000 wardens should know their stuff...
...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...
...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...
...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...