Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, super-secret "betatron"-which generates an X ray so powerful and dangerous that the entire apparatus must be enclosed in three-foot concrete walls-was completed a couple of years ago. Wartime security kept it hidden until last week. Even then, General Electric Co. did not tell quite all. But G.E. did give a fair description of how the great gadget works, and some broad hints about a few of the things that it will...
Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts the X ray...
Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
Industry lacked raw materials and transport. But production was picking up. Coal mines were operating at a third of capacity. On the farms the harvest was good-a ray of hope for a nation that expects a hungry winter. Everywhere the people-farmers, workers, professionals, politicians-busily organized into cooperatives, unions, guilds, blocs, all woven into a Government-controlled...
...example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...