Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's history is not exactly a bed of roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
...Shorter meal hours, better cooking of vegetables, and most important of all, greater decentralization of cooking units, were recommended by the Student Council last night in an effort to offer a solution to the current food question confronting the University...
Regarding a solution to the first question, it was first proposed to institute shorter meal hours, and thus "eliminate the present necessity for keeping food in the steam kitchens for an inordinate length of time after it has been cooked...
...company is anxious further to explore shorter waves than have ever been used before. These shortest of waves (technically microwaves) would be of vast assistance in handling mechanized armies. With the almost limitless frequencies afforded by microwaves, an enemy would have a fierce time jamming instructions to army and navy units...
Lyman's device uses very short radio waves* which can be focused by parabolic reflectors into beams. (The shorter the waves, the better they can be focused.) Directed into space, the beam will bounce back if it hits metal. Lyman's device rapidly combs the skies with directed beams, picks up reflected signals with a coordinated parabolic receiver. Returning signals are shown by a spot of light in a cathode ray tube (heart of television receivers). The moving spot charts the course of the plane...