Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed forces manpower problem. Among their suggestions: more pay and the retention of old perquisites, such as commissaries; a consistent personnel policy with unchanging limits for pensions and retirement; a greater effort, from the top down, to enforce discipline and give troops stronger leadership-pride in a military unit is often a good substitute for big pay in a blanket factory...
Meanwhile, the AFROTC unit is retaining only seven non-flight juniors, three in the engineering category and four in the administration...
Among science's most sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, they originated in the spurt of innovation that followed the French Revolution. The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine. So the meter that was finally accepted (39.37 in. in length) was almost as arbitrary a unit as the ells, feet...
When the Navy learned that the Bureau of Standards was working on the same problem, the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics decided to underwrite the experiments. To get mass production, NBS simplified electronic products and designed a standard unit. Its basic element is a thin ceramic wafer, ⅞-in. square. Various electrical devices (conducting paints, tape resistors, paper-thin capacitors, etc.) are affixed to the wafer surfaces. Next, four to six such wafers, spaced less than ¼-in. apart, are connected by a gridwork of twelve wires. The end product can be used as a building block...
...automatic machines, Project Tinkertoy now turns out 200 to 300 finished units an hour. Production goal: 1,000 an hour. Cost per unit: 50?, about half as much as the conventional unit. The Government holds all patents, will let anyone use them. Said one Navyman: "The field is wide open . . . We hope that private industry will pick up the ball and run with...