Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup, but costs much more ($1,495 and $2,500) than the Fisher...
...does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory and its partner project in Cruft, the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory. Among the contributions of the joint effort were an clactroacoustic air speed indicator, lightweight soundproofing for air-planes, aural blind flying instruments, and special earplugs which make possible better hearing of voice under conditions of sustained loud noise...
...former lightweight and welterweight champion of the world, an exmarine, was hanging on the ropes last weelt...
Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...
...evidence, Young cited the average age of the nation's 6,800 sleeping cars: 22 years. Less than 9% of the cars are of modern, lightweight design. Only 764 replacements had been ordered as of June...