Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dailey's boss insists that Dailey's motorcycle is an incorrigible piece of machinery suffering from perpetual hypochondria. It seems to need some new "indispensable" gadget every other week. To Dailey, however, it is the instrument with which he makes a living and nothing is too good for it. As a result, its own maker would have a hard time recognizing his product...
With the routine efficiency of a precision instrument, Capital Airlines' Flight 410 took off from the Pittsburgh airport and headed east for Washington toward a soupy sea of cloud. It was 5:20 p.m. (E.S.T.). Aboard the DC-4 were 50 people -the crew of three, a baby and its mother, a honeymoon couple, Government and Red Cross officials, businessmen, a schoolgirl on a holiday...
After a preliminary investigation, CAB Chairman James Landis made an obvious preliminary finding: the plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage...
...Buenos Aires, Artur Rubinstein narrowly avoided an unthinkable calamity. When he learned that the piano shipped from the States wouldn't reach him by concert time, he had another favorite, a 1,400-lb. concert grand, rushed by plane from Manhattan, thus escaped playing an instrument he had never used before...
...instrument with which most nations are now feverishly hunting for uranium is called...