Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automatic ice indicator has been developed by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. at the request of the Army Air Forces. The new ice indicator does two jobs: it shows on an instrument panel the thickness and rate of accumulation of ice on airplane wings, automatically operates the deicers at the proper time...
There's no doubt about it, Harry James has put the trumpet back 30 years. Not for nothing did Louis Armstrong show musicians what could be done with a trumpet. Instead of a blaring, brassy, emotionless instrument, Louis made it a warm, passionate voice. James can still play a hot horn; he turns out an occasional good chorus. But he has added fiddles, written his own lush and senseless orchestrations, and become the number one band of the nation. Well, buy Harry's new record of "I Cried For You" and dance to it, but you won't enjoy listening...
They had to learn to rely, under bad instrument-flying conditions, on the primary aids of their dim-lit cockpit panel: the indicators for turn, bank and rate of climb, and the air-speed dial. But until they got into conditions so bad that the birds themselves walked, they could not learn to use those aids properly. That took time...
...sends out more than 3,000,000 words a week in 43 languages, reaches 200,000,000 persons weekly and, despite its critics, is "the largest and most trusted broadcasting instrument in the world...
...issue is now clearly before us," he said, "It is whether there will be continued anarchy with recurring war as the effective instrument of policy or whether we can build an alternative for war sufficiently coherent and practical to function in times of crisis...