Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass X Rays. Small-size (4-by-5-in. and 35-mm.) X rays were the main subject of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis. These films, in use about two years and used on recruits by the Army, cut the cost of X rays1? to 6? apiece (price of regular 14-by-17 film: 65?), and "make possible mobile X-ray units which can examine 50,000 people a year. Drs. G. A. Hedberg and E. J. Terrill of Duluth told of one unit which had surveyed an already carefully examined county and found active tuberculosis...
...unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons, it has solved many...
During the year a total of 2,606 officers were admitted to the training courses in electronics and cathode ray tubes in preparation for work with radar equipment, while 1,420 officers were enrolled in the pre-training course in this field. The report went on to say that 204 Army officers had been given instruction in the control of soils in airport and in general military construction...
Lady in the Dark (Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland; TIME...
Lady in the Dark (Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland; TIME...