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...gunsight building time, praise from the Navy and millions of dollars in orders for torpedo directors (1,000 parts, superfine machining), gyroscopic contraptions to offset warship roll, other precision instruments. Meanwhile General Mills put at least one super-secret device into production behind locked and guarded doors -a gadget to smoke-screen an entire city in seconds...
Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., whose food, drug and liquor indexes are gospel to U.S. merchandisers, announced the coming of age of its Audimeter, a gadget installed in radio sets that keeps an exact record of the radio's tuning. Seven big-time clients-and their ad agencies are already using the Nielsen Radio Index based on the gadget...
...loading a ship so as to get the best stability possible is no longer something that depends on the feel and the rule-of-thumb calculations of the officer in charge of stowage. But all the guess has been taken out of it by a simple gadget which has been installed on a number of U.S. ships...
...trial & error the best stowage of a ship can be quickly figured out when she is loading in port. If she is torpedoed at sea the same gadget may help in determining the corrective measures needed to keep the ship from capsizing...
Another new gadget...