Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electronics and television. In mid-1942, the Air Forces, alarmed by crashes at fogged-in English fields, asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work out a blind-landing system. They developed the idea with practical help on production problems from Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit while his competitor was on his fifth. Yet he charged the Government only a 1.1% profit...
...Shoot!" At 8:45 in the morning, six miles northeast of the town of Van Wert, West brought the big haulaway rig jolting and hissing to a stop. There was a police car across the highway. Van Wert County's grizzled Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer called: "You got any passengers in back?" West said: "None that I know...
Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
Confident Man. From Raleigh to the rim of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dewey rolled his rig at high speed, made 13 speeches in 13 hours, all denouncing "this incredibly stupid" Truman Administration. Political observers gave him between 41 to 50 of the three states' 63 delegates- not many more than he had before, but all solidly in hand. Commented Dewey: "It is wonderful to campaign in the sunshine...
...exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle is cut out by conventional surgery. Then the needle is lowered like a well-digger's rig into the thalamus, and the searing electric current turned on. After a year's experiments with animals, Drs. Spiegel and Wycis were ready for their first human patients. Last week they announced first results of their new operation, called thalamotomy...