Word: detector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secrets of lost pipes will no longer be secrets when the Maintainence department's new mine-detector pipe locator arrives Monday, according to Donald E. Robinson, foreman of University plumbers...
...unit, a $200, bright-red version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...
With the new electronic locator, Robinson claims all the problems of location are solved. When a leak or clogged pipe develops, a man with the detector walks over the suspected area systematically, listening to a buzzing sound through earphones attached to the detector's receiver. As he walks over a buried pipe the buzzing increases in intensity...
...first foreign affiliate, France's "Saphymo" (for Société d'Application de la Physique Moderne), planned to start production overseas. For next year, Barbour, cannily aware of the atomic age's "uranium rush," already has a new product on the books: a portable radiation detector for prospectors...
...Chambers was led to one room of Suite 1400 in the Commodore. Alger Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony...