Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This "superconductive bolometer" can register heat from a man's body 500 yards away in total darkness. If hitched to a proper scanning device, it makes a rough picture of any warm object. Dr. Andrews, who had himself "photographed" by the bolometer (see cut), thinks it will be useful in searching for heat leaks from buildings, is sure it has a future in medicine and astronomy. It might also have war possibilities, such as guiding an atom-armed rocket toward the warmth of a blacked-out city...
...Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...
...Guided by radio impulses from a jeep, the creaking, beaten-up bomber struggled into the air. Then a "mother plane" took its controls by radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud...
...Rough Money. In the wartime economy, everything was scarce but this artificially created money. The money was poured out in high profits (before taxes) to encourage industry, high wages to encourage labor, reasonably high prices to encourage farmers. It had-and still has-no place...
...price has been the biggest problem. Mills, caught between rising costs and OPA ceilings on rough construction lumber, were concentrating on finished wood, where profits were higher. Yet rough construction lumber is what the U.S. needs most. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt's program to build 2,700,000 houses alone calls for nearly eight billion board feet this year...