Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause you to be on time for classes with both eyes open, though the rest of you be closed; when all these things culminate in a full dress uniform, a bridal veil, and a minister ... brother...
Local or General? This week, the Eastern Front no longer surged westward. Instead, it had become a fluid line, moving east at some points, moving west at many, static at most. Though handicapped, the Red units in the western Ukraine still presented a force seemingly too formidable to be swept into the Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses...
Besides aircraft, Goodyear is now making gas masks, rubber boats, life rafts, barrage balloons. Besides peace planes, Goodyear's postwar plans include: housing insulation, plastics, Airfoam (sponge rubber cushion), a radio static eliminator...
...static eliminator was one of many new gadgets announced at Goodyear's lab oratory dedication last week. Most of them now have a strictly military purpose. But the chief significance of Goodyear's expensive new laboratory was its preview of the part that synthetic rubber and plastics may play in the postwar world...
Goodyear's new "radio static neutralizer" has a set of electronic tubes that intercepts outside electrical interference and reduces it to less than one twenty-thousandth of a volt. In one test a 25,000-volt spark projected on a radio antenna was so effectively tamed by the neutralizer that the set smoothly brought in a short-wave broadcast from Europe. But the neutralizer is reserved for the armed forces, will not be available to civilians until after...