Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue a decided improvement in X-ray could be seen last week. It consisted of some amazing X-ray transparencies. Each one appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...
...must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both for war and postwar industries, housing developments, down to "every concern from which the Government purchases so much as a lead pencil," must be made on the "condition of non-discrimination." The teeth in the contract: "In default of compliance, the license can be revoked...
Holding the red pencil for the United States Government was Colonel Dean Hudnutt, commander of all military forces at Yale, inspecting officer for the First Service Command. Harvard ROTC chief, Colonel William S. Wood, will inspect the military units at Yale next week...
...unruffled and competent reporter stands on the deck, at the airport, at the Secretary's elbow, with his pencil working on the wad of copy paper, his sharp eye on the crowd, on the building about to fall, on the halfback faking and spinning. The good correspondent goes overside with the troops, crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there...
...happy-go-lucky Socialist deputy who edits La Vanguardia goes laughing away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers...