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...guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
...covers the lower part of the trunk and gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
...control-tower operators are a kind of remote-control traffic cop. No plane may move about the field without their clearance. By radio and signal lamp they issue priorities in landings and takeoffs, clear and assign runways, give directions for taxiing, direct planes to hangars, cite wind direction and velocity. At a busy field, tower operators have no time for knitting...
Frontier Life. In Mankota, Sask., a steer in a cattle car poked a horn through the car's slats, caught up a switch lamp en route, baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose...
...ways of a little Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...