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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1945
Page
13
AP features recount how the 1920s revived a crackpot peace mood with new ideas and tactics amid postwar tensions. The piece traces fashion and culture from Channel swimming to flappers, jazz, speakeasies, and Prohibition, noting social shifts and political slogans.
During the blitz England's Home Guard used a sticky resin from Libbey Owens Ford to render German time bombs inoperable. The resin hardens instantly on exposure to air and was poured into bomb timing mechanisms to sterilize the devices.
Vivian Viewe g a Washington University alumnus and Harvard physics student recounts Massachusetts Institute of Technology cyclotron work under Dr. M. Stanley Livingston and Dr. Ernest Lawrence. The piece explains cyclotron design, voltage ranges, shielding, and the role of Geiger counters in analyzing bombarding by neutrons and elements like krypton and barium.
An Indiana soldier, Ralph Morrie Knox, 23, thanks Bill Fox, Indianapolis News sports editor, for help while imprisoned in Japan. A Japanese sailor on a hospital ship asked if Knox knew Fox, revealing Fox’s prior Detroit contact and prompting friendly exchanges and gifts kept secret.
Baltimore UP telegram notes Lynchburg mothers who aided the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard in launching Ship No. 504, the U S S Lynchburg, with a collective 16 sons serving in World War II. Mrs H L Hudson claims 12 children with seven sons in WWII and three in World War I, while Mrs J A Druum heller has five other sons in the armed forces and one son killed in France on D-Day.
Safety campaign teams unveil a three minute driverater test at the Franklin Institute Merc to judge driver skill and attitude. The stationary car and screen present seven hazards to simulate real roads and record correct reactions with X marks. The program targets new licensees and returning GIs, stressing safe behavior over speed.
The Clains Institute of Technology and Armour Research Foundation unveiled a magnetic wire sound recorder using ultra fine wire and a recording head. Commercial production will start in 12 months. Inventor Marvin Camras, a former electrical engineering student, developed the principle. The device aims to let a busy person dictate letters in a car or hotel room and have them transcribed after arrival at work. The war era use hints at civilian potential. The system records by magnetism as sound travels along the wire and reproduces by replaying through the same head.
The article describes portable recorders enabling replay of family conversations at home and at the table. Police could tag recorders to radios for later playback of broadcasts. Reporters could capture quotes with a pocket model and broadcasters would obtain recordings of news events for listener interest.
A note explains that salted dried corn adds as much Vitamin A and B as fresh corn when cooked after cutting from the cob. The comparison highlights nutrient retention in processed corn.
Comdr. B. Schuster of the Navy Medical Corps prescribes a duck-waddle form for back pain. Lie on the back squat with knees bent, then waddle with head and shoulders forward until fatigued. Increase duration to ten minutes for relief, he says.
Chicago report details a Siamese named Baby that refuses mice and standard cat fare. The pet, owned by 10 year old Joyce Braly, dislikes ordinary meals opting for fish and cream, while the father notes the cat’s unusual personality and appetite.
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