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...Bookie. While Section 605 has sat lumpishly on the books, serving mainly to bar wiretap evidence in federal courts, wiretapping has flourished. Technology has kept up with demand. Today a good tap sets up so little interference in the line that users do not hear it. A tapper can rig up a tape recorder and leave the scene, returning only once a day to change the tape. Induction apparatus makes it possible to tap a wire without hooking into it or even touching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE DEBATE ON WIRETAPPING | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...allow it.' I said, 'Who's they?' She said, 'The school.' I said, 'What d'ye mean, the school? That's bricks and mortar; it can't talk.' She said, 'Eva looks smart in school rig.' I said, 'She didn't look so smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Little Eva's Slacks | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...from one old friend, borrowed $100 from another and bought a secondhand drilling rig. On his first try, at a depth of 73 feet, the rig broke down. Steen, who had no money to buy a Geiger counter, borrowed one from a friend to test a sample of the greyish black rock brought up by the drill. The needle nearly jumped from the dial of the instrument. "We've found it!" cried Charlie. "We've found a million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Cisco Kid | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Quota System. The Russian oil fields were developed slowly, says Smirnov, because of lack of equipment: "Oil-drilling crews use a copy of an American rig, but it is in short supply . . . Drilling is done according to official rates. In the Second Baku fields, for example, the government ordered that each crew drill 2,100 ft. per month in the Pennsylvanian-type limestone. [Then] a well-trained crew of speedup specialists [was moved in and] with ideal working conditions and new equipment drilled 4,800 ft. in one month. Now every crew in the Second Baku must drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Russian Wildcatting | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Pratt and Whitney provided three pieces of equipment, the tunnel, an axial flow compressor rig, and a centrifugal compressor rig. The tunnel is divided into three parts. The first, or front, is for subsonic speeds and is used to calibrate the instruments used in the testing program. This subsonic section, with a diameter of six inches, narrows down to a throat--shaped section where supersonic speeds are produced. Behind this is a subsonic cascade tunnel, used in the rotor tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Carries on Aeronautical Research . . . | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

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