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...films (four inches by five) are used to take photographs of an X-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. (A fluoroscope shows up internal organs but does not take permanent pictures.) With a special camera, a technician can take one picture a minute, for about 25?. Although difficult to interpret, the films are only a trifle less accurate than large plates. They have been used on thousands of people in several large cities, notably Detroit and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Experts | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Canada, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduated its 20,000th ground-crew technician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Scores | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries or his own before the Nazis. But he is also a skilled technician and killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nazi Bomber | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Starting at 9:15 o'clock the Ibisters' program lasted for 20 minutes until a loyal technician jerked out a vital tube a half an hour later and put the Network out of its misery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY BREAKS UP BROADCAST ON NETWORK | 5/8/1941 | See Source »

When two other sons, Quentin, a clerk in the Air Ministry, and Frank, a technician for the British Broadcasting Corp., were arrested and interned, their father shook his head helplessly. When the first big flight of Nazi bombers roared over London one night last September, a bomb crashed on Dulwich Common, blasted the home in which white-haired Michael Joyce lived with his wife and two youngest children. Ailing, he moved into another small, red-painted brick house in nearby East Dulwich. There, last fortnight, Michael Joyce died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Renegade Unmasked | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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