Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free postwar competition, signed an agreement to implement it. Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines, which now fly the North Atlantic, did not sign. Pan Am fears the results of a wholesale postwar competitive scramble among U.S. airlines while foreign countries operate through a government-backed "chosen instrument." Export has said nothing. American is the first of the big lines to challenge the nonsigners in their own bailiwick...
...other materials nonreflecting-and virtually invisible. Restricted to military uses for the duration, it will provide the postwar world with such useful things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...
...pieces of shrapnel from the wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
This position coincides with the views of Pan American Airways President Juan Terry Trippe. Juan Trippe, sensitive to political realities, long ago recognized that Pan Am's prewar monopolistic position was unpalatable to many U.S. citizens. The "chosen instrument" policy represents this change in Trippe's thinking. And Pan Am, by sheer force of equipment and know-how, would merit the lion's share of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
...England as the classic example of the nation that found out the hard way that one international airline was enough. (For three years, Britain had only one.) But last week American Aviation reported that 1) "the British Government so far has refused to be smoked out on [the chosen instrument] issue"; 2) British aircraft manufacturers have recently come out four-square for competition. Concluded American Aviation: "There is a growing volume of opinion in England against the Government policy of a monopoly ... in the postwar field...