Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through a detector...
...removal of land mines is the sort of horrifying job that defies description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...
...greatest U.S. victories in Africa last week were political rather than military. They followed months of shrewd State Department maneuvering (see p. 75). It began in the winter of 1940, when worldly, good-natured Robert Murphy, U.S. Counselor of Embassy at Vichy, was sent to Algiers as a supersonic detector of French African affairs. It was Mr. Murphy who arranged with General Maxime Weygand to deliver U.S. food to the French colonies. Mr. Murphy and scores of U.S. agents saw that the food got there. In the process they made friends for the U.S. all over the colonies, got facts...
...crime bus, the like of which had never been seen by cop or criminal. This mobile fort, laboratory, hospital and riot car combined was designed for the Illinois State Police by Thomas Peter Sullivan, director of Public Safety, and Leonarde Keeler, developer of the lie detector...
...spot detective work-a lie detector, blood-analysis equipment, still-and motion-picture outfits complete with darkroom, devices for examining explosive packages...