Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the third deck so I investigated. . . I found a real jive session in progress and learned that they were rehearsing for a Record Hop on July 14 . . . FRANK DAVIS, JAMES OLIVER, F. GLENETT and M. LYSING will give out to all the solid senders instead of the usual wax discs. . . that should be very good between...
...wax-sealed brief case Joe Davies brought back a sealed letter from Joseph Stalin to Franklin Roosevelt. The contents, known only to the principals, were certainly historic, perhaps were history-making in the profoundest international sense...
Joseph Stalin smiled, Joseph Davies smiled, Viacheslav Molotov smiled.* Then the special messenger from the White House shook hands warmly with his Kremlin hosts. He was off for the U.S., with his dyspepsia and pills and the wax-sealed envelope bearing Joseph Stalin's reply to Franklin Roosevelt. Everyone, agreed that Mission II to Moscow, its nature still a secret, had gone famously...
...Potential Pounds. The Wire Recorder weighs only 10 lb. (minus the amplifier and tubes) and, when electric pow er lines are not available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...
This equipment was first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...