Word: gadgeted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host of minor characters as bright and synthetic as a string of dime-store diamonds. Together they create an illusion of Manhattan high life a year or so before Pearl Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
...Douglas Aircraft, there were enough good ideas in the first 500 suggestions to hit the jackpot with cumulative savings of 2,000 man-hours a day-enough to build seven big bombers in a year. A new tooling gadget for milling wing spars cut off 15-20 hours; a woman war worker in the lacquer department figured out how to save 90 woman-hours...
...some quick figuring on what to do when the glasses got broken. (About 15% of the men in the armed forces wear glasses.) Last week the Army trotted out the mechanized answer-a truck-borne optical shop, designed by A. Turner Wells of American Optical Co. The oversize gadget packs $20,000 worth of lenses, frames, grinders, etc., can repair the spectacles of an army of 300,000 within rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their way back to base hospitals for glasses-which often did not catch up with them...
...which many industries had to shelve would have precipitated great advances within five years. And other farseeing scientists like Vannevar Bush concede a short-term gain for applied science but a long-term loss, for the ultimate wellspring of technological progress is in fundamental, "pure" research, far from the gadget factory...