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Wafers of Accuracy. Sawed into thin slabs, usually no bigger or thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...
...Department's Public Relations Bureau, wants to use the Wire Recorder to bring the battlefronts nearer home. With this device the radioman makes his comments into a hand microphone, which would also pick up surrounding battle sounds. The microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...
While the building of that nice, shiny, green outhouse in the center of the Yard it sure looks as though there is going to be an urgent need for some mighty thin Platoon Leaders to get inside to give out orders over the new P. A. System or is it just a Snuff...
Once more, as during the days of Vichy appeasement, U.S. editorialists dragged out the simile of the long, thin thread which soon must snap. Wrote New York Times Managing Editor Edwin L. James: ". . . If he defies Washington, there will be created a situation which, to repeat, could scarcely be allowed to continue...
...Thin-skinned Minister of Munitions and Supply Clarence Decatur Howe "is an assembly line in pants...