Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the dimly lit midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
...many a company the big profits had not materialized; rising costs had chewed them up. Nor was there any hope that the rise in costs would stop. Commodity prices, up 22% since the end of the war. were still soaring. Labor efficiency was down (see Autos) and another wave of raises all around-which most businessmen expected-would boost the labor cost still more. In short, peak production alone did not promise the profits which stock buyers had been betting...
...many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...watt ultrashort-wave transmitter could weigh less than 50 lbs., said Dr. Hutcheson, and its signal would be strong enough to reach from moon to earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...
...prolong the life of its batteries, station MOON would be clocked to broadcast only one minute in each hour. After landing, it would settle down to reporting local conditions. Compressing their findings on the radio wave, sensitive instruments (already highly developed by meteorologists) would feel for moisture and atmosphere. Thermometers would measure the violent temperature changes during the moon's month-long "day." Other instruments might report the effects of cosmic rays upon the moon. Carried back to earth by the radio wave, such information would give a new view of the sun's radiation, prime mover...