Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personnel battle. Ever since the Air Force was separated from the Army in 1947, the Army has stoutly held control of some 30,000 Engineer troops, whose chief duty is building and maintaining airfields. This week Army Assistant Secretary John Slezak acknowledged that the Engineers will permit this unit to be absorbed into the Air Force...
Italy's Communists and fellow travelers were determined to make difficulties for her. Two left-wing Senators charged that the Ambassador's activities "constitute foreign interference in the domestic affairs of Italy," and trumpeted for an investigation. The official Communist L'Unità joined in. accused the Ambassador of "espionage." called her "an old lady who needs rest to calm her nerves." The Red Socialist Avanti chimed in with its own blast: the U.S. Ambassador is in reality "Senator Joe McCarthy's Rome agent in charge of witch hunting." What the hue & cry is about...
...something like a home recorder. A skilled operator records all the machine motions required for a machining process on a tape that is hooked up to the machine. When the tape is played back, the machine faithfully repeats the original motions down to the last detail. The first such unit will go to the Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co. at Fond du Lac, Wis., where it will be used to turn out self-reinforced skins for jet planes...
Electronic Sterilizer. A portable water sterilizer that kills bacteria by means of ultraviolet lamps inside a stainless steel cylinder was put on sale by Los Angeles Aquafine Corp. The 133-lb. unit can handle 7,000 gallons an hour. Price: household model, $140; industrial model...
...noxious fumes from the smoke of industrial plants has been adapted for use on diesel trucks and buses by Oxy-Catalyst Manufacturing Co. (TIME, June 9, 1952). Called the "oxycat," it consists of a series of alumina and platinum alloy-coated porcelain rods. The company plans a similar unit for cars...