Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are only a few changes on the new boat. One is a gadget on the stretchers calculated to make shifting them to fit individual oarsmen less difficult, and the other is the addition or laminated washboards instead of solid ones. The new shell is marked on the stern "P 85," which means it is the eighty-fifth shell in order of acquisition, and that it was built by Pocock. Below these cryptic figures is a "41," standing of course for the year in which it was first used...
...Glancy, an ex-Du Pont Republican with patriotic urge to lick his terrific job, has an act for people who ask: "How are we doing?" In the top right-hand drawer of his desk is a tight roll of paper six inches wide. To explain this gadget he huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail...
...When he began talking on stage as he talked in rehearsal, his comic gift appeared. Once when he was running over the line "ugh" for an Indian part, he remarked: "I don't know if I can sustain the emotion." Cook Book included Joe's most colossal gadget - the Fuller Construction Company Symphony Orchestra - and carried the crackpot through vaudeville and his great .Broadway days to his famed, screwily furnished home, Sleepless Hollow, at Lake Hopatcong...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...expanse of white sock showing between his trousers and Army shoes. Over all he yanked dun dungarees and a warm canvas jacket, spotted with grease. On his head he set a heavy, padded leather helmet-the tankers' standard headgear. Around his neck he reluctantly strung a new gadget much hated by the Armored Force: a recently designed dust-mask, undoubtedly useful for preventing silicosis, but in Company D parlance a goddam nuisance after hours of heavy nose-pinching...