Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...hours after she was out of sight of land. Like test pilots feeling out a new airplane, her builders and crew tried her slowly, firing each gun singly. There were no targets. Between salvos, technicians topside and below took readings from strain and blast gauges, many another gadget that would show how North Carolina writhed when her guns...
...raid alarm for the private home, estimated price $15, was last week demonstrated by R.C.A. President David Sarnoff to Civilian Defense Director Fiorello LaGuardia. The gadget: a box the size of a portable radio which rings a bell and flashes a light when a radio warning signal is sent...
...during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...