Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry, drawing on Detroit for engines and parts (and in the case of Consolidated Aircraft on the unreconstructed Tom Girdler...
...unfair Practices group then asked for its radio and announced its intention of having the instrument checked by another dealer with an itemized list of Minute Man repairs before him. Delivery of the radio was refused, however, on the grounds, as later alleged in court, that its owners were unwilling to pay the bill for which they were charged...
...crowd of researchers from the National Exposition of Chemical Industries at Chicago witnessed the demonstrations. They compared photographs already made with the large instrument, revealing unsuspected details in the structure of metals, pigments, powder, oils and in the anatomy of bacteria and viruses. Physicians were especially eager: some expect the conquest of diseases like the common cold, influenza and infantile paralysis, caused by viruses invisible except in the electron microscope...
...hence higher voltage. The portable models sacrifice extreme magnification, but R.C.A. gives 5,000 diameters, G.E. 10,000 (compared to 2,000 useful upper limit in the best microscopes using light waves). Both can be "blown up" photographically to give in effect 100,000 diameters or more. The G.E. instrument, developed by Dr. Simon Ramo and Dr. Charles H. Bachman, has a horizontal system, is 52 inches high, operates on a 110-volt light circuit, The R.C.A. model, only 16 inches long in us optical parts, is the product of work directed by famed television expert, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin...
Robert Miller '46 will play a cello concerto by Johann Braun, a violinist virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. The music shares the common failing of virtuoso-composed concerti, a lack of organic give and take between solo instrument and orchestra, but it is very pleasant to listen to. For the most part, Miller plays like a veteran, and when a Freshman undertakes to play what an 18th century virtuoso wrote to display his own technique, it would be foolish to cavil at small lapses of pitch or phrasing...