A MODERN SYLLOGISM MAJOR PREMISE: Bell Telephone System serves the | American Public. MINOR PREMISE: Bell Telephone Laboratories develop the facilities of the Bell System. CONCLUSION: Therefore, Bell Laboratories serve the American Public. ‘And thet is the raison d'étre of the Labore- tories. For the Bell Telephone System, the Laboratories carry on research studies in all ‘the seioncos and development workin all the engineering arts that rolate to electrical communication. For the Western Electric Company, the manu= facturing unt of the System, the Laboratories neering activities. For the Armed Fores of the United States, undor coniracts of the Western Electtic, the Laboratories have undertaken more than a thousand development projects — many with spectacular offect upon our enemies. DLL THLWONE LABORATORIES explore ond inant. vite parc or oor Armd fetes et wet ed for ented Improvements and aconeude i theoe sorstn | 2a POPULAR MECHANICS Popular Mechanics Magazine 1H, H, WINDSOR, Founder HH. WINDSOR, Jr, Editor and Publisher =) March, 1945 Vol. 68, No. 3 IN THIS ISSUE Bazooka Boats Hit the Beaches - 1 Ice Crackers of the Coast Guard - = 11 Bridging the Army’s Water Hazards 18 Next Month LD-TIMERS in the Coast Guard consider the year around Greenland about the toughest a the IS years that branch of the jas been in existence. When the Germans gobtled up || The Rails Are Talking - - - - 28 Revparks Uiey may have fences || Combing the Sea for Lost Flyers - 33 \would fall plum-fashion into their || Sharpening the Navy’s Camera Eyes 40 thus £v cebeng" Gauts ot the || Smiping the Sniper ~~ - = + 44 Gocet Guard! swing inte aston. || Models—Tip-Off to What's Ahead - 51 ake were ght agit bie. || Putting Air to Work - - - - + 60 ards, shifting ico and Nasis ‘0 || Black Gold Rush = - + + + - 65 tstablish weather bases for the Al lies along the forry-plane route te Europe. "Wateh Over Greenland” ‘appetrs in the April issue, TNT Special {PHB bras dropped on ale 4,000-plane raid. would fll « Tips for Moviemakers freight train three miles long cae yee ult AVERY profesional movie eameraman hae bag full Co en a ne eer ieee ext ey ck tees eoalled Caks ome aE eae ander the heading of “hghiing” “Tis opplce t both Teh thetic crema wiegutdoor and indoot snes Flee laps or tefscore can the railroads. How trainmen han- be manipulated to give brilliance and depth to pictures HEU SRNE geet intand made with an 8 ot f2mm, camora or to focus stenion ate the vr opesal rom inind Sri proper soot, Wanders an be accord with ation is told for the first time in 2 spotlight autre! with front flaps, ealled “barn doors’ {i Apt sve tp liaiS wood cinocumen, "An arbi in ie Apr sxee, "follycece ‘ps Tor Moviemakors filed th helps W-AR Calling hat eherllgwe aprotemonal om theme moves EIGHT to nine milion words 4 Li day coackle tut over tee arbor Moving the Earth to Win a War wavesirom Station WAR the War ARLY in the war an American general remarised that Department's Signal Center which 14" vietory would go to the side that could move the ig the heart of the largest radio most dirt—and he ‘wasn't speaking of propaganda. The etvork in the wor. Hote gut! 37 Inds the world in dhe production of posta in the Pacific are only a few moving machines such as bulldozers, whieh perf Ininutes away by radio-telograph, thousand vital jobs ranging trom clearing «path for ‘The signal conten, vitel ine in advancing infantry. to digging a ditch for & pipeline at lobal warfare, 4s the subject of home, ‘The “dozer” family ie featured in “They Move the Barth” next month Aerialists on the Home Front - - 76 Medics in Dungarees - + + + + 82 Where-to-Buy-It Index—Page 8A. SER aie tari RP MARCH, 1943,Popular Mechanics Magazine WRITTEN SO TOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT MARCH, 1915 sheepish—and proves the tut ‘he biggen tbh ue whee Sir are made up in part of extraordinary nev By Thomas E. Stimson, Jr. SEP especlally designed for this type of TSE Jone of slmcct 100 years agp bad ware vor been anything like the Arcerican . Representative of the peculiar ships that. swarnhipa with which Commodore Berry have been evolved for giplubious opera eg it eh Gommmadars Pacey UE rte Teale 28 Dot a Ree See ee Eee eer afore Dagny endmcaning Landing hin Dock peace eae nis Seer ee seit ectean oe E SOS aE dnculuamrsmnasin mccoy ore . a es epee Soa dat te exter wa amrsl a EVINRUDE ourzoar nS te eee ea ee Se eal cee he Sock eoaeally 'D MOTORS P'otiey years ago Net ony are these not many fet shove th waterline and is invasion fleets of Unprecedented size; they jam-packed with amphibious vehicles. Ar- MARCH, 1945 1 A iain cee