Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled wildly, pounded backs, fired guns, drank hoarded whiskey. On Okinawa the night was lighted by millions of tracer bullets as men fired rifles, machine guns, antiaircraft guns. Green and yellow flares glared in the darkness. Ships offshore, fearing a Kamikaze attack, laid down a smoke screen, opened up with antiaircraft guns. Veterans had seen nothing like it during the whole battle for the islands. The celebration had tragic consequences : six men were killed, 30 wounded...
...Beam That Sees. An electronic supergadget which "sees" as well in the dark as in the light, radar projects a radio beam which, on striking an object near or far, returns an echo that is translated into a visual image on the radar screen. Radar can see the flight of a shell, the wake of a ship, the explosion of a target, the fall of a hit plane. At sea, it can detect buoys, reefs and other ships more than 20 miles away...
Normally the screen shows the size but not the exact shape of the detected object. Occasionally it may get an effect of almost photographic sharpness (the screen in Artzybasheff's drawing, though an exaggerated animation, is based on a ''shadow effect" actually caught in one freakish radar picture of a plane a couple of hundred yards away...
...should, Manhattan's Viewtone Co. last week said that it was ready with a set for "the average man." Viewtone, which is now making electronic devices for military use, backed its claim by displaying a small table model, with a small (4½ x 6½ in.) screen. Price: $100. Viewtone promised to go into production of "hundreds of thousands of sets" as soon as WPB said the word...
...Liberty was dropping a million dollars a year, Printer John Cuneo took it over for the printing bill, and decided to keep it going rather than let his huge presses stand idle. He called in his ace magazine salvager, handsome ex-Hearstling Paul Hunter, who had rescued Screenland, Silver Screen and Movie Show for him. Hunter ordered Liberty's circulation pulled up out of the barbershop trade, to reach people with more buying power. At first, under Hunter, circulation continued to drop-to a low of 1,112,000. He now has it up to 1,262,000 (about...