Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ray tube which can shoot more concentrated radiation through twelve inches of steel than could all past commercial tubes combined plus all the radium ever mined, was announced last week at the Radiological Society of North America. It is the first commercial tube to operate at two million volts...
...ray tube a stream of electrons from the cathode crashes into the target, impelled by the electrical voltage. Their speed goes up with the voltage-and the higher their speed, the more penetrating are the X rays produced when they collide with the metallic target. Low-voltage or "soft" X rays are sufficient to reveal cavities in teeth or the bones of the hand, because bone absorbs them and thus throws a "shadow" on the photograph. But to reveal gas bubbles or minute flaws in steel armor plate, very "hard" rays are needed, hence a very high voltage...
There is another reason for this X-ray tube's phenomenal performance: it uses a "magnetic lens," similar to that in the electron microscope (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942), to focus the electron beam in the tube on a bull's-eye only .01 inch in diameter, instead of the usual quarter-inch focal spot. Thus the X rays emerge in a sharp beam and produce well-defined shadows even after passage through thick steel...
...responsible for developing the new tube is keen, soft-spoken Raymond R. Machlett, Cornell-trained president of Machlett Laboratories of Springdale, Conn., largest manufacturers of X-ray tubes in the U.S. The firm was founded by Raymond's father, Robert, in 1897, just two years after the discovery of X-rays. Robert Machlett died in 1926 of prolonged and repeated X-ray burns, acquired in the pioneering period...
...York the Yankee Stadium and its 70,000 seats was the issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...