Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without suggesting how the Wagner Act should be amended, Kaiser would like to see it given an overhauling by Congress to make it "an effective instrument for settlement of industrial conflict." This week he seemed to be getting some backing from labor itself. In an open letter to Congress, William Green, head of A.F. of L., declared that "someone in authority within the government" has got to stop jurisdictional rows...
...last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons, screws. The machine is set to indicate a certain weight, signals dit-dah when the needle is under the mark, dah-dit when...
...evident therefore that not "higher voltage" but improvement of the "optical" parts of the instrument is desirable...
...hesitate calling the electron microscope as it is a magnificent instrument. In view of future developments, however, it has to be admitted at the same time, that with respect to its lenses in their present state, no more favorable comparison can be made than with the microscope as it was at the time of Leeuwenhoek...
...instrument, a refinement of the commercial gravitimeter used in locating oilfields, is a strong spring with a weight attached to its lower end. Any change in the pull of gravity changes the pull of the weight, shortens or lengthens the spring by an invisible amount. The instrument records fluctuations in gravity of one part in a billion...