Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another suggestion before you leave. If you know any fellas interested in joining the orchestra, why tell 'em to hustle over with whatever instrument they play, and sit in. So Monday and Wednesday nights we'll be seeing...
...iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw. Every inch of shoreline was wharf, crowded with yachts and heavy ships. They flew low over the roofs toward the first of their chain of four targets. Four times the red light on the instrument board blinked, as each bomb was released. Lawson looked back once, saw a steel smelter "puff out its walls and then subside and dissolve in a black-and-red cloud...
...stands, the picture is 65 minutes of highly unorthodox film fare, and an exceedingly potent instrument of propaganda for untrammeled (and not yet existent) air power. It may drop with the effect of an incendiary bomb into the long-smoldering argument on whether the U.S. should have a separate Air Force, ranking with the Army and Navy and independent of their control...
This workman of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. is putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas...
...detected the first flight of Jap planes approaching Pearl Harbor, but a U.S. Army officer ignored the warning ("a historic example of the closed mind in action"). Then the U.S. put most of its best physicists and the bulk of its electronics industry to work mass-producing the instrument ("one of the great postwar chapters for the U.S. electronics industry to tell...