Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expression (surprised) but by the sounds (symphonic) he emitted from his instrument, his listeners in Washington, D.C. this week could tell that Sigurd Rascher was no saxophonist of the baser sort. With the National Symphony and Conductor Rudolph Ganz behind him, Saxophonist Rascher's proops and pralalas were strictly serious. And so was Sigurd Rascher, for he is the man who rescued the saxophone from the barrelhouse...
Last week, as it was in every U.S. war since 1831, Roebling was busy with defense orders-some 75% of its current work. It was turning out huge harbor defense nets, degaussing cable, wiring for battleships and cantonments, signal wire, anchor cables for captive balloons, instrument parts. At the dinner were three great grandsons of John Roebling-Joseph M. and Major Ferdinand W. Roebling III, both vice presidents, and Charles Roebling Tyson, secretary-treasurer. The Roebling family still owns all but a few shares of Roebling stock...
Near Long Island's Mitchel Field one last week, Lieut. Roy W. Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
...workers (like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping bags...
When most Army pilots still insisted on flying by the seats of their pants, and often died with their pants, forced down, Andy Andrews pioneered instrument flying. Deviltry and curiosity apparently had as much as scientific inquiry to do with his zest for flight in rain, storm, fog, guiding planes solely by their then rudimentary instrument boards. One soggy day he flew to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy game, got there to find no slits in the clouds he could coast through for a landing. His radio sender iced over, left no way to get a message to the ground...