Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instrument was developed by a famed navigation expert, Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow, who was killed in an air crash last year, and by the Bendix Aviation Corp. Its chief use so far has been in B-29 Superfortresses and in carrier planes, which have found it very helpful in getting back to their ships...
...mighty gadget for aircraft, good in peace as well as war, was taken out of military wraps last week. It is an automatic navigation instrument that helps a flyer to know where he is at any instant, even in bad weather. The machine, officially known as the Air Position Indicator, but called "The Brain" by its makers, greatly reduces the amount of calculation a navigator needs to make...
...drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally crack the German armies in the west...
Effects of alcohol and drugs on mental efficiency are being computed in another section of the Fatigue Laboratory. Several of the drugs, incidentally, have been found stimulating; not so, the alcohol. A two hour stint at an instrument called the targetometer is guaranteed to produce mental fatigue in even the most alert...
...battle was not yet fully joined; the rising independents had their own problems, too. Where, they mourned, was a new producer to find name players (the real instrument of power in wartime Hollywood) and where the scarce, raw film? And if these should be found, as they can, be, how was the producer to find a Broadway theater to spotlight his pictures for the rest of the country...