Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four-man war council to stamp out the 18-month-old Mau Mau revolt, 2) a 16-man Cabinet to act as "the principal instrument of government." The crucial new feature: the Cabinet would include, for the first time in East Africa, non-white ministers-two Indians and an African...
...stock, the steel company has bought a half interest in National Research Corp.'s subsidiary Vacuum Metals Corp., the only cornmercial producer of high-purity metals by the vacuum melting process. Vacuum Metals will expand production 500% to more than 100 tons of metal a month for navigation instrument bearings and turbine blades...
First, the organization is not to be a FRONT for anything. It is to serve as the instrument for the expression of feelings held by many members of the University, and which at present have no organized outlet...
...Another instrument which crowds the cabin of the Atlantis bears the unprepossessing name of Geomagneticelectro-kinetograph (affectionately known as the "geek") and measures temperatures difference in the water by exploiting changes in the earth's magnetic field in a long wire loop dragged behind the boat. Using the principles of this instrument, the Institute experimented last fall on the current that runs through the Florida straits by hitching up electrodes on either end of the Western Union cable that runs to Havana and measuring the potential between the ends. Calculation with the potential gave the amount of water that flows...
Although most of the observation of currents have been made at sea, the Institute has developed one remarkable instrument to predict ocean currents right in the laboratory. This apparatus consists of a large parabaloid bowl on which the outlines of the continents are raised. The bowl is set on a drive shaft that rotates it rapidly and evenly, while from four sides a battery of Kenmore vacuum cleaners blows a steady supply of "trade winds" late the hemisphere. The procedure into pour water into the bottom of the rotating parabaloid while centrifical force spreads it into an even sheet that...