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Even if you know nothing about camera technique, you may soon be taking clear, indoor snapshots of Junior. The Army Signal Corps has developed a parent-proof camera with built-in sunlight. All you have to do-indoors or outdoors, day or night-is focus on the subject and pull the trigger. The camera does the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Never Mind the Birdie | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...bombs with built-in television transmitter and radio control. They can be steered by the directing plane from a television image which shows the target and a spot indicating the bomb's position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Intelligent Bombs | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

These "intelligent bombs" are limited in scope and usefulness because they have no built-in source of power, are propelled only by the speed of the plane which launches them and by gravity. The rocket-propelled bomb for the push-button war was not yet ready for unveiling. There was nothing at Dayton as futuristic, even, as last year's German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Intelligent Bombs | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...seen Persia," said a dreamy G.I. to Correspondent Joel Sayre as their ship entered the Persian Gulf, ''was a swell big marble layout in the moonlight with a built-in pool. Birds was singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People Going Crazy | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Squarish and single-storied, each house has four rooms, built-in cupboards, a fireplace, walls well insulated against heat, cold and sound, stronger roofs and floor supports than conventional houses. Much more luxurious than the house many a citizen of Great Britain lived in before the war, they are carefully designed to outlast the average ten-year life of the usual temporary house. Their cost: $3,800 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: The Featherweights | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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